Hanou. Preferred to all the others!
Mouene [the youngest] For my part I should prefer to live....
Sitsi. Still, if the God desired you....
Zaya. Oh! one can refuse....
Delethi. Yes, but one must leave the country, then.... None of the daughters of Haka-Phtah could bring themselves to that.
A pause.
Yaouma [to herself] Perhaps!
Nahasi. What do you say, Yaouma?
Yaouma. Nothing. I was speaking to my soul.
Mouene. Yaouma's eyes weep for weariness because they watch far off for him, who comes not.