5. “What do you want?” he asked her.“I am a poor widow, sir,” she answered. “My husband is dead.
6. Sir, I had two sons, and one day they got into a quarrel out in the fields, where there was no one to separate them, and one of them killed the other.
7. And now, sir, all my relatives have turned against me and are demanding that I hand my son over to them, so that they can kill him for murdering his brother. If they do this, I will be left without a son. They will destroy my last hope and leave my husband without a son to keep his name alive.”
8. “Go back home,” the king answered, “and I will take care of the matter.”
9. “Your Majesty,” she said, “whatever you do, my family and I will take the blame; you and the royal family are innocent.”