How can he come back? The Hebrew slave that went away with him, when they caught her, said that he was dead. The High Priest has shut her up in the prison of the temple, accusing her of her master's death.
NUBTA:
Yet I think he does not believe it, for I heard him telling our mistress what to do if Naaman should return.
KHAMMA:
What, then?
NUBTA:
She will claim him as her husband. Was she not wedded to him before the god? That is a sacred bond. Only the High Priest can loose it. She will keep her hold on Naaman for the sake of the House of Rimmon. A wife knows her husband's secrets, she can tell----
[Enter SHUMAKIM, with his flagon, walking unsteadily.]
KHAMMA:
Hush! here comes the fool Shumakim. He is never sober.