Also, within an hour, I was summoned to a council of generals to discuss some matter of a war in which the Empire was engaged.

By such means as these it was conveyed to me that I had become a great man, or, at any rate, one in the way of growing great.
That afternoon, when, according to my old custom, I was making my round of the guards, I met the Augusta upon the main terrace, surrounded by a number of ministers and courtiers.

I saluted and would have passed on, but she bade one of her eunuchs call me to her.

So I came and stood before her.
"We greet you, General Olaf," she said.

"Where have you been all this long while?
Oh! I remember.