Yaouma. Again!—You must think but little of me, to believe I should reveal what you bade me keep secret. [She lays her hands on Satni's cheeks] It was you, was it not?

Satni. No, no, no! a thousand times no!

Yaouma. It was your gods then, your gods whom I know not.

Satni. No.

Yaouma. Who was it then?

Satni. No one.

Yaouma [out of countenance] No one! [A pause] You possess no power that other men have not?

Satni. No.

Yaouma [the same] You seem as one speaking truth.

Satni. I speak the truth.