SALADIN.

Had you the thought of staying?

SITTAH.

In your immediate presence not indeed,
But in the by-room.

SALADIN.

You could like to listen.
Not that, my sister, if I may insist.
Away! the curtain rustles—he is come.
Beware of staying—I’ll be on the watch.

[While Sittah retires through one door, Nathan enters at another, and Saladin seats himself.

Saladin and Nathan.

SALADIN.

Draw nearer, Jew, yet nearer; here, quite by me,
Without all fear.