YASMIN
(With a shout at once of terror and triumph) I will not close my eyes!
I will look at you. You dare not do it, looking at my eyes!
(HASSAN whirls sword round.)
You dare not do it, looking at my eyes!
(HASSAN flings the sword across the room and falls across the divan, his face in his hands.)
HASSAN
O Hassan the Confectioner, thou art nothing but an old man and a fool!
(YASMIN comes up to HASSAN. The BOYS silently disappear.
He draws her toward him.)
(With infinite tenderness) Yasmin!
SCENE III
The Great Hall of the Palace. The room is plain, white marble.
ISHAK alone, in his robes of Court Chamberlain.
(Enter SOLDIERS with the CAPTAIN OF THE MILITARY and the CHIEF OF POLICE.)
(The SOLDIERS intone "The War Song of the Saracens.")