But stop; she may have a hand in the game: the Queen trusted her as if she were her sister, her daughter.

No one knows what she and Charmian are to her.

They are called waiting-women, but are their sovereign's dearest friends.

When, on the departure of the fleet, Cleopatra was compelled to leave Iras here--she was ill with a fever--she gave her the charge of her children, even those whose beards were beginning to grow, the 'King of kings' Caesarion, whose tutor punishes him for every act of disobedience; and the unruly lad Antyllus, who has forced his way the last few evenings into our friend's house." "Antony, his own father, introduced him to her." "Very true, and Antyllus took Caesarion there.

This vexed Iras, like everything which may disturb the Queen.