HEROD

Say, Gabalos, dost thou think that our Legate from Syria, before whom all the gaiety and colour of life doth shimmer, hath ever seen a young daughter of Princes dance at table?

GABALOS

That would be grand, because it is something new.

SCENE II

The same. Herodias [from right].

HEROD

[Noticing her.] Get thee gone!

[Gabalos and the servants withdraw to the background, where they let down the curtains which now shut in the hall.]

HEROD