Do you say, then that the lady of your master is there in that house?SCELEDRUSI assert, as well, that I saw here here in this house (points to the house of PERIPLECOMENUS), toying with a strange man.PALAESTRIOdon’t you know that there is no communication between our house here and that one?SCELEDRUSI know it.PALAESTRIONeither by the terraceBy the terrace: Solariumwas either a balcony or terrace before a house, or on the top of it, which was exposed to the sun. People walked there in the cool of the evening. It was from a solarium that David first saw Bathsheba., nor by the garden, only through the skylight?SCELEDRUSI know it.PALAESTRIOWhat then, if she is now at home? If I shall make her, so as you may see her,come out hence from our house, are you not deserving of many a lashing?SCELEDRUSI am so deserving.PALAESTRIOWatch that door, then, that she may not privily betake herself out thence without your knowledge and pass here into our house.SCELEDRUS’Tis my intention to do so.