Far from the Madding Crowd thank him, he asks if she needs a shepherd. She uncovers her face and reveals herself to be none other than Bathsheba. She has recently inherited her uncle's estate and is now wealthy. Though somewhat uncomfortable, she employs him. Meanwhile, Bathsheba has a new admirer: the lonely and repressed William Boldwood. Boldwood is a prosperous farmer of about forty, whose ardour Bathsheba unwittingly awakens when – her curiosity piqued because he has never bestowed on her the customary admiring glance – she playfully sends him a valentine sealed with red wax on which she has embossed the words, "Marry me".
Naamah (wife of Solomon) as Naamah was to descend from them. Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah ("pleasant") was an ancient queen consort, wife of King Solomon and mother of his heir Rehoboam, according to both , and in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and the only one of all the Queens Mother of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner. She was also the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Hebrew Bible, as having borne a child. Naamah is praised in "Bava Kamma" 38b for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God