9/18 It is not enough that Basil may not wed her; I would fain have her for myself.' The listener laughed. She began to think this man something of a simpleton. What more do you expect of me ?' Marcian looked towards the open doorway. They were seated in a luxurious little room, lighted from the peristyle, its adornments in sculpture a sleeping Hermaphrodite and a drunken satyr; on the wall were certain marble low-reliefs, that behind Heliodora representing Hylas drawn down by the Naiads. |