These incidents we do not see.

They precede the opening of the opera, and we learn of them from Assad's narration.

Assad returns to Jerusalem, where, conscience stricken, he seeks to avoid his chaste bride.

To Solomon, however, he confesses his adventure, and the king sets the morrow as his wedding day with Sulamith.
The Queen of Sheba arrives, and when she raises her veil, ostensibly to show unto Solomon the first view of her features that mortal man has ever had vouchsafed him, Assad recognizes the heroine of his adventure in the woods on Lebanon.

His mind is in a maze; bewilderingly he addresses her, and haughtily he is repulsed.