Have no anxiety.

Petronilla has been examined this morning, and, from what I can gather, she seems to have betrayed herself.

Bessas wore the smile which means that he has over-reached somebody.' 'Then we shall find her,' exclaimed Basil.
'They will find her, I doubt not,' was the reply.
The meal being ready, they sat down to eat together, but their appetite was small.

Decius, who had wearied himself this morning in finding discreet answers to the questions with which he was privately assailed by his kinsfolk, did not come to table.

Having dined, Basil and his friend set forth on foot, half a dozen servants walking behind them.
Midway in the descent of the Caelian, they were met by an odd procession: a beautiful boy of some twelve years old, clad in yellow, riding upon a small white ass with rich housings, and behind him three slaves, dark-visaged men of the East, on mules of great size, caparisoned with yellow cloth, to which hung innumerable tinkling bells.