And why should not a man be great even as a murderer?
From what hangman's noose did you drag out the neck of one, and from what headsman's block did you rescue the other when you found them?
"It is a lucky hour in which we first see something new to us, and, by Heracles! I never before in the whole course of my life saw such villains as these.

I do not regret having gone to see them and talked to them as if I were their equal.

Now, take this torn coat off me, and help me to undress.

Before I go to the feast I will take a hasty plunge in my bath, for I twitch in every limb, I feel as if I had got dirty in their company.
"There lie my clothes and my sandals; strap them on for me, and tell me as you do it how you lured the Roman into the toils." Klea could hear every word of this frightful conversation, and clasped her hand over her brow with a shudder, for she found it difficult to believe in the reality of the hideous images that it brought before her mind.

Was she awake or was she a prey to some horrid dream?
She hardly knew, and, indeed, she scarcely understood half of all she heard till the Roman's name was mentioned.