King. Did you ever see this happen to any one else?
Both women. More than once.
King (joyfully). Then why may I not welcome my hopes fulfilled at last? (He embraces the boy.)
Second woman. Come, Suvrata. Shakuntala is busy with her religious duties. We must go and tell her what has happened. (Exeunt ambo.)
Boy. Let me go. I want to see my mother.
King. My son, you shall go with me to greet your mother.
Boy. Dushyanta is my father, not you.
King (smiling). You show I am right by contradicting me. (Enter SHAKUNTALA, wearing her hair in a single braid.)
Shakuntala (doubtfully). I have heard that All-tamer's amulet did not change when it should have done so. But I do not trust my own happiness. Yet perhaps it is as Mishrakeshi told me. (She walks about.)
King (looking at SHAKUNTALA. With plaintive joy). It is she. It is Shakuntala.