In this chapter, we are introduced to a young woman named saloumé, who is a character in the play Tartuffe. She is a virgin, chaste, and beautiful, and we learn that she has been introduced to her by her stepfather, the actor tetrarch. . She has been acting in a production of Tartuffe, which was directed by a friend of hers, reitagou. The first time we see her is when she is in the final performance of the seagull, directed by the same friend. The scene ends with her alone on stage, muttering lines about her love for the man who is imprisoned by the king. She asks where the man is, and the actor replies that he is the prophet of abominin, who will one day die in the faces of the people. She then asks who she is looking at, and he replies that she is the princess of herodias, and asks her to be gone. She replies that it is her mouth that she wants, and that she will kiss the mouth of the man she wants to kiss. The actor then asks her what she will ask of him, and she replies that though she knows her stepfather's views, she will dance for him. She says that she would have danced for him if he were her lover, but that he would have been tainted by the blood of "a filthy whore," and so it would have ended in a bloody end.