from back of stage

]. You're welcome. Come, come, I beg of you. Dear aunt, how can I thank you for taking the trouble to come here!

CHACHO [

covered by a tschadra[[38]] enters from the right of the ante-chamber

]. Good-morning! [

Taking off the tschadra.

] Why did you send for me in such haste?

[Gives one end of the tschadra to Salome.

SALOME [

taking hold of one end of the tschadra