MESULEMETH

Well, this is her place. Here she sat and waited for the Messiah, forty years long. When she died she left the place to me ... And now I sit and wait till He comes again.

JOHN

Comes again? Hath He then been already?

MESULEMETH

Certainly He hath.

JOHN

[In deep emotion.] He came? Came even to thee?

MESULEMETH

To me? No. If He had come to me, I should have been at rest long ago. But Hannah ... She saw Him when He came.