(He rushes in; they engage; Doeg is wounded.)
Your villainy is done.
(Quickly forces him under. The gate then opens and Abiathar hurries in.)
Abiathar. David, the battle——!
(Sees Doeg and stops, pale.)
David. Fetter him.
Abiathar. Only fetter? (His dagger out) the murderer
Of priestly sanctity and of my father?
David. Abiathar! You know obedience?
(Doeg is sullenly bound and led aside. Then a panic is heard afar, and dim laments. David, who has sunk to a seat, springs anxiously up.)