SECOND SOLDIER
The death-ring. So he was not afraid.
THE CAPPADOCIAN
Yet it is a terrible thing to strangle a king.
FIRST SOLDIER
Why? Kings have but one neck, like other folk.
THE CAPPADOCIAN
I think it terrible.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN
The Princess is getting up! She is leaving the table! She looks very troubled. Ah, she is coming this way. Yes, she is coming towards us. How pale she is! Never have I seen her so pale.
THE PAGE OF HERODIAS
I pray you not to look at her.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN
She is like a dove that has strayed. . . . She is like a narcissus trembling in the wind . . . . She is like a silver flower.
[Enter Salomé].
SALOMÉ
I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the Tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's
eyes under his shaking eyelids? It is strange
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