Rosalba Neri credited as playing...
Keresh
- Hegai: A plain white gown. Such simplicity! Was it your choice?
- Esther: Yes.
- Hegai: Indeed. One might think you have no desire to win a queen's crown. A most becoming modesty. It pleases me. An unassuming virtue that needs rewarding.
- [to the servants]
- Hegai: Fetch me the cloak of gold!
- [to the maidens]
- Hegai: You may rest, my little doves.
- [Hegai brings the golden cloak]
- Esther: I am grateful, but I don't wish to be so favored.
- Keresh: I will accept it.
- Esther: Oh, yes. Yes, give it to her.
- Hegai: [to Keresh] Speak only when you're spoken to!
- Keresh: Take care, eunuch! I have mighty friends.
- Hegai: In the brothels of the street of the soldiers, no doubt!
- [to Esther]
- Hegai: Here, my child. I ask you to wear it. Please.
- [wraps the cloak around Esther]