He sends for her, he lies with her, he impregnates her. When David hears that the woman is pregnant, he immediately attempts to hide his sin. Bathsheba becomes a wife to the king. A year passes. The child of David and Bathsheba has been born.
Life seems to have returned to normal.
David has begun to think that perhaps he has escaped scandal, that his actions will not become public knowledge. But David s sins were not hidden. God has sight, and God saw. And God remembered and so sent Nathan the prophet. For the most part, Old Testament prophets appear to have been a rather fearless lot.