Nicodemus
Are they stopping?...
Bartimæus
No.... They are passing.... There is no one in the street now.... Yes!... There is some one coming at the other end.... Do not make a noise.... It is a woman and four men.... Why, I know them!... It is Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathæa, James, I believe, and Andrew and Simon Zelotes.... They are looking around them.... They are knocking.... Go down and open the door to them....
SCENE II
The Same, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathæa, James, Andrew and Simon Zelotes
Mary Magdalene (beside herself, dishevelled, barefoot, with torn garments)
How many are you?... Are you ready?... What have you been doing while waiting for me?... I have come from the Antonia Tower.... The military tribune was not in the Roman quarter.... But I have seen his friend Appius.... He will send him to us as soon as he returns.... Verus said that it might be possible to save him.... I do not know how.... He will explain it to us.... But, if he does not save him, we must.... James and Simon have swords under their cloaks. Where is Peter? Where is John?...
Martha
I saw them in the hall of the high-priest’s house....