SALOME
Forgive me, mother, and let me stay with thee.
HERODIAS
Thou who lookest at me so imperiously, art thou the man who stirreth up the people against me?
JOHN
I am he whom thou hast summoned.
HERODIAS
[Seating herself.] Come hither to me!
JOHN
Send thy women away, and this child, so that she be not corrupted ere she is ripe.