To Alexander
:] Please be seated.
ALEXANDER. My father, when do you wish the betrothal to be celebrated?
OSSEP. That depends upon you. Do as you wish.
ALEXANDER. I will invite twenty persons and bring them with me. My superiors I must invite also; it would not do to omit them.
OSSEP. Do as you see fit.
ALEXANDER [
to Salome
]. Perhaps he is angry with me. If there is any reason for it, pray tell me now.
SALOME. What are you saying? That cannot be!