Real roses! Why they’re cheap.
Among our folk we’ve silvern ones and golden.
These should be sent to other lands where flowers
Are costly—rare as gold and silver here.
[The servants scatter. The guests, among them Soemus, have been assembling during the latter half of this scene. Music and dancing. Silo and Judas detach themselves from the others and advance to the foreground.
Silo.
What does this mean?
Judas.
You ask what does this mean?
The King is coming back, and that to-day.