Philometer, now alone with his wife, said with mild reproach: "How could you abandon yourself to such unmeasured anger?
So faithful and prudent a servant--and one of the few still living of those to whom our mother was attached--cannot be sent away like a mere clumsy attendant.

Besides, what is the great crime he has committed?
Is it a slander which need rouse you to such fury when a cautious old man says in all innocence of a young one--a man belonging to a world which knows nothing of the mysterious sanctity of Serapis--that he has taken a fancy to a girl, who is admired by all who see her, that he seeks her out, and gives her flowers--" "Gives her flowers ?" exclaimed Cleopatra, breaking out afresh.

"No, he is accused of persecuting a maiden attached to Serapis--to Serapis I say.

But it is simply false, and you would be as angry as I am if you were ever capable of feeling manly indignation, and if you did not want to make use of Eulaeus for many things, some of which I know, and others which you choose to conceal from me.

Only let him fetch the girl; and when once we have her here, and if I find that the Roman's indictment against Eulaeus--which I will hear to-morrow morning--is well founded, you shall see that I have manly vigor enough for both of us.