Satni [looking behind him] Before which God do you still bow down?
Rheou. Before you. If you be not a God, you are the spirit of a God.
Satni. I do not understand your words.
Rheou. Who can call down thunderbolts from heaven, unless he be an envoy of the Gods?
Satni. I am no—
Rheou. 'Tis well, 'tis well. You would have us blind to your power of working miracles. After yesterday you can hide it no more. Henceforth, Satni, you must no longer confine your teaching to Mieris, to me, to your parents, Yaouma, to a few—henceforth you may speak to all, all ears are opened by this miracle.
Satni. Let us leave that! I pray you rise and tell me rather what has befallen Yaouma.
Rheou. Yaouma!—Did she not at first interpret the thunderclap as sign of the wrath of Ammon against her?
Satni. She believes still in Ammon, then, despite all I have said to her.
Rheou. Happily I undeceived her. I made her understand that 'twas you the elements obeyed, that the thunder that frighted her, was but a sign of your power.