Nay, but there’s accusation in the wind
That by your chamberlain’s kind offices
You’ve had him strangled in the river-depths.
Herod.
Thanks, Alexandra, thanks!
Joab.
Then, waving hand,
He bade me thence—I went. But, once again,
He called to me and spoke—“You’ve not yet paid
The question I first put you its due answer;