Another. No! 'tis Hene. Ahou, I tell you—or Karma! Karma!
Satni [to Yaouma] Have you, then, ceased to love me?
Yaouma [distracted] No, no, I love you—Satni—but I seem to hear my name amid the cries—
Satni. Let them cry your name—I will watch over you.
Yaouma. Oh, Satni! If the God have chosen me?
Satni. What God? It is the priests who make him speak.
The sounds come nearer.
A Voice. 'Tis Yaouma! they come here! Quick, quick, let us do them honor on their coming.
Another. No!
Another. Yes!