Are you in earnest, Knight, about this maid?

Be calm--she shall be yours. Nathan shall feel

That without swines-flesh he has dared to rear

A Christian child. Now, Templar, leave me. Go!

(Exit the Templar. Sittah leaves the sofa.)

Scene V.

Saladin and Sittah.

SITTAH.

'Tis strange, indeed.

SALADIN.