They never met again.

A week later the bishop was dead.
After all, Venantius sat at table with Chorsoman.

Fuming, he waited till the next morning, when, if the news could be believed, it became certain that Aurelia and her companion were not at Cumae.

Basil, having no choice, then paid for ransom nearly all the money he had secreted, and rode away with Venantius, purposing to remain at Nuceria until joined by Marcian.

Three days later Marcian appeared at the castle He brought no intelligence of the lost ladies.