Scene 10 Later that day. One of the Palace's gardens.
AMIDALA, waiting for SABE to return from the meeting with OBI-WAN, paces impatiently.
AMIDALA: The clock struck nine when I sent Sabe, in half an hour she promised to return. Perchance, she didn't meet him. That cannot be. It's been three long hours; yet she is not here.
SABE enters with a basket filled with fabric and notions for one of AMIDALA's new headdresses.
AMIDALA: O, she comes! O, dear Sabe, what news? Have you seen him? --- Why do you look sad?
SABE: I am weary, give me leave awhile... Puts basket on a bench.
AMIDALA: Nay, come, I pray you speak. Good Sabe, speak.
SABE: My queen, what impatience! Can't you stay awhile? Don't you see I'm out of breath?
AMIDALA: How are you out of breath when you have breath to say to me that you are out of breath? Let me be satisfied, is it good news or bad news? What says he of our marriage vows?
SABE: O, how my head aches?
AMIDALA: I am sorry that you are not well. But sweet, dear, friend, tell me, what says my love?
SABE: Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a virtuous --- Where is Governor Bibble?
AMIDALA: Where is Governor Bibble? Why, he is within the palace. Where should he be? Finally loses patience. How oddly you reply! "Your love says, like an honest gentleman... Where is Governor Bibble?"
SABE: By the Force, my queen! Are you so hot? I declare is this, the thanks I get. Henceforward do your messages yourself.
AMIDALA: Argh! Uses her most commanding voice. Come, what says Obi-Wan?
SABE: Have you cleared your afternoon schedule?
AMIDALA: I have.
SABE: Then hie you hence to see Master Yoda at the temple; there stays a knight ready to make you his lady.
AMIDALA hugs SABE.
SABE: Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks. Hie you to the temple, and I to the milliner. Lifts her basket.
AMIDALA: Dearest Sabe. Farewell.
They exit in separate directions.