Esther 2:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he commanded the eunuch to hasten the women's ornaments, and to deliver to her her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king's house, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.

¹⁰ And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:

¹¹ And he walked every day before the court of the house, in which the chosen virgins were kept, having a care for Esther's welfare, and desiring to know what would befall her.