Before they can progress with their sexual relationship, Baba rushes in and announces to Gulbeyaz and Juan that the sultan is arriving: “The sun himself has sent me like a ray / To hint that he is coming up this way.” (V. clviv, 1151) Preceded by an entourage of courtiers, concubines, and eunuchs, the sultan arrives and notices the presence of "Juanna", and is regretful “that a mere Christian should be half so pretty.” (V. clv, 1240) In a Muslim culture, Don Juan is a "giaour", a non-Muslim. The narrator Byron then comments that “That in the East, they are extremely strict, / And "Wedlock" and a "Padlock" mean the same.” (V. clviii, 1258)