For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they desired to have to do with her.

Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.

And the one said to the other, "Let us go home now, for it is dinner time."So when they had gone out, they each parted from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after they had asked each another the reason, they acknowledged their lust, then they both appointed themselves a time when they might find her alone.

And it happened, as they watched for a fitting time, that she went in as before with two maids only, and she intended to wash herself in the garden, for it was hot.

And there was no one there except the two elders, who had hidden themselves and watched her.

Then she said to her maids, "Bring me oil and washing balls and shut the garden doors, so that I may wash myself."

And they did as she asked them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves through private doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them; but they did not see the elders, because they were hidden.

Now when the maids were gone, the two elders rose up and ran to her, saying,Behold, the garden doors are shut, so that no man can see us, and we are in love with you; therefore consent to us and lie with us.

© Izuuchukwu Stanley