If I don't drive out the demons, you will have plenty of time to trot after Olympus." This proposal pleased the old slave, and a short time after Gorgias entered the venerable philosopher's tablinum.
Helena welcomed him like an intimate friend.

Whenever he appeared she thought the peril was half over.

Didymus, too, greeted him warmly, and conducted him to the little room where the youth possessed by demons lay on a divan.
He was still groaning and whimpering.

Tears were streaming down his cheeks, and, whenever any member of the household approached, he pushed him away.
When Gorgias held his hands and sternly ordered him to confess what wrong he had done, he sobbed out that he was the most ungrateful wretch on earth.

His baseness would ruin his kind parents, himself, and all his friends.
Then he accused himself of having caused the destruction of Didymus's granddaughter.