SCENE IV
Jethro Bithell translation
BARAK, then SKIRINA.
BARAK. (Sees SKIRINA coming from the Palace.) Who's there? Skirina? What! And in such haste? Whence come you? Whither are you going? SKIRINA. Why, For sheer delight because the unknown Prince Had won the game; a little, too, because I itched to hear how the proud tigress took it, I ran to see Zelima in the harem. BARAK. Incautious woman! What is this you say? I see. I hear you boasting: "Yes, just fancy, The strange Prince spoke to us; my husband knows him...." Is it not as I say? SKIRINA. Well, if it is, What harm is there? BARAK. Confess it! You have told! SKIRINA. Well, yes! She asked me straightway for his name, And, to be frank, I promised her... BARAK (angrily). Damnation! The cat's out of the bag. Insensate woman! Come hence! Away out of the town! (TRUFFALDINO appears with his eunuchs in the background.) Too late! There come the eunuchs. (To SKIRINA.) Fool of a woman, go! Go home and hide thy folly! (To the eunuchs.) Here I am!