What can it mean?
CAPO.
[Entering, left]
The new régime, fair ladies!
[To Zelima, who runs with the other slave girls toward the door, right]
I beseech you,
Do not be timid: All true love romances
Are hatched in harems. ’Tis my specialty.
[Dressed in robes of royal splendor, Capocomico stands smiling at them]
TURANDOT