Where is Esther?
Sachel.
Can't you hear her snoring? I can, though she is away at the back of the house! I have not slept seven hours in these seven days!
Aaron.
Do you think the girl has any suspicion that Rafael may have found that he has undertaken the impossible? If he did throw her off—I don't say that he has—but if he did, it must strike her that she wouldn't have a place to go in all the world!
Sachel.
She believes in him.
Aaron.
When he is with her, yes! But when he is away, and she waits and waits, are not all women alike? Doesn't she know that he has sacrificed every guilder that he might have had from you?