Yes!...
Verus (holding her back by force)
What does this mean?... Then you wish to...? (Magdalene nods her head.) I no longer understand.... Or rather I begin to understand too well.... You were at one.... And it was he whom you were awaiting with that impatience which seemed so sweet to me?... For who could be made to believe that the fairest, richest and proudest woman in all Judæa would thus, without a previous understanding, obey the first word, the first sign of the grotesque and repulsive messenger sent by one whom she had seen but once in her life!... It is too much.... I see, I know: go, since you love him!...
Mary Magdalene
No, no!... I love you, but he....
Verus
But he?...
Mary Magdalene (sinking in sobs at Verus’ feet)
It is a different thing!...
Verus