Rodney Ohebsion

David and Bathsheba

MARRIAGE COUNSELOR Tell us why you think David's not making this marriage work.

BATHSHEBA Well. For one thing, he's obsessed with his work.

DAVID What? I'm not obsessed with it. I just like my job, and I want to do it right. Is that a crime?

MARRIAGE COUNSELOR Please David, let her finish.

BATHSHEBA And he's constantly bragging about how he's slain tens of thousands. He even has a sign outside our palace that says "tens of thousands slain"!

DAVID What?! It's the truth.

MARRIAGE COUNSELOR David, please.

BATHSHEBA Thank you, doctor. Anyways, he also told me that he would divorce his seven other wives after we got married -- and here we are three months later, and he's still married to all of them. He even took one of them on our honeymoon! Can you believe that!

DAVID What?! I was helping her out! She was feeling lonely, and she really wanted to see Philistia.

Bathsheba furiously gets up and says:

BATHSHEBA That's it! I've had enough of this. Helping her out! Were you also helping her out when you knew her every night we were there!

DAVID Well -- she said she was feeling stressed, so I...

BATHSHEBA Ugh... I’m out of here.

She storms out of the room.