JAFAR
There are carpets.
RAFI
Great, rich, soft carpets from Persia and Afghanistan?
JAFAR
Yes.
RAFI
It is a pity. Soft carpets make soft the sole of the foot.
And they who have soft feet should ever keep them on the road of meekness.
MASRUR
(Drawing his sword) Dost thou dare threaten us, bismillah!
RAFI Truly, O most disgusting negro, comprehension and thou have been separated since your youth. Shall I then drop needle of insinuation and pick up the club of statement? Shall I tell you three guests of mine, with the plainness of plainness and the openness of plainness, that if you offer one threat more, propose one evasion more, or ask one question more, I will thrash your lives head downwards from your feet.
(Enter HASSAN finely dressed, and ushered in by the FOUR BOYS through the rows of DANCERS.)
HASSAN
(Lamenting) Eywallah, eywallah, eywah, eywah, Mashallah! Istagfurallah!
RAFI
Why, here is the fourth guest!
ALDER
We have washed him: he needed it.