&#8220;All the king&#8217;s servants and the people of the king&#8217;s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law&#8212;to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.&#8221;