“When the people
In the house
Heard the shouting
In the garden,
They rushed in
Through the side door
To see
What had happened
To Susanna.
When the elders
Told their story,
The servants
Felt very much ashamed.
Nothing like this
Had ever been said
Around Susanna.”
The people in the house heard all this shouting and screaming in the garden. They then arrived via the side door to the garden. Then the old judges told their story about Susanna and the young man. The servants were then ashamed, since nothing like this had ever happened to Susanna before.
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