]? That one is old-fashioned and the others new-fashioned. If we can have one kind, why do we use the other?
[Silent awhile.
SALOME. Well, well! don't be angry! So you will give 6,000 rubles—you have promised it. What is lacking I will procure.
OSSEP. You will procure it? Where, then, will you get it? Not some of your own dowry, I hope.
SALOME. I had no dowry. Why do you tease me with that? No, everything I have I will sell or pawn. The pearls, my gold ornaments, I will take off of my
katiba
. The gold buttons can be melted. My brooch and my necklace, with twelve strings of pearls, I will also sell; and, if it is necessary, even the gold pins from my velvet cap must go. Let it all go! I will sacrifice everything for my Nato. I would give my head to keep the young man from slipping through my hands.
[Exit hastily at left.