How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
SALOMÉ I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the Tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's eyes under his shaking eyelids? It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that. I know not what it means. Of a truth I know it too well. (68)
However innocent Salomé may be, even if she doesn't lust, she still knows what lust looks like.
Quote #2
SALOMÉ Thou wilt do this thing for me, Narraboth, and to-morrow when I pass in my litter beneath the gateway of the idol-sellers I will let fall for thee a little flower, a little green flower.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN Princess, I cannot, I cannot.
SALOMÉ [Smiling.] Thou wilt do this thing for me, Narraboth. Thou knowest that thou wilt do this thing for me. And on the morrow when I shall pass in my litter by the bridge of the idol-buyers, I will look at thee through the muslin veils, I will look at thee, Narraboth, it may be I will smile at thee. Look at me, Narraboth, look at me. Ah! thou knowest that thou wilt do what I ask of thee. Thou knowest it… I know that thou wilt do this thing. (111-114)
Here, again, we see that Salomé is a skilled temptress whether or not she's chaste.
Quote #3
JOKANAAN Where is she who saw the images of men painted on the walls, even the images of the Chaldæans painted with colours, and gave herself up unto the lust of her eyes, and sent ambassadors into the land of Chaldæa?
SALOMÉ It is of my mother that he is speaking.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN Oh no, Princess.
SALOME Yes: it is of my mother that he is speaking. (121-4)
Salomé seems to take a strange pleasure in hearing her mother called a harlot.