[While they embrace Nathan by turns, Saladin draws nigh to Sittah.
SALADIN.
What sayst thou
Sittah to this?
SITTAH.
I’m deeply moved.
SALADIN.
And I
Half tremble at the thought of the emotion
Still greater, still to come. Nathan, a word
[While he converses with Nathan, Sittah goes to express her sympathy to the others.
With thee apart. Wast thou not saying also
That her own father was no German born?
What was he then? Whence was he?
NATHAN.