So we must maintain the utmost secrecy concerning the place to which Barine voluntarily exiles herself." "But she is not yet on her way," replied Dion with a faint sigh.

"She is bound to this city by many ties." "I know it," answered Archibius, confirming his companion's fear.
The latter, pointing to the equipage, said in a rapid, earnest tone: "Gorgias is beckoning.

But, before we part, let me beseech you to do everything to persuade Barine to leave here.

She is in serious danger.
Conceal nothing from her, and say that her friends will not leave her too long in solitude." Archibius, with a significant glance, shook his finger at the young man in playful menace, and then went up to the carriage.
Caesarion's clear-cut but pallid face, whose every feature resembled that of his father, the great Caesar, bent towards them from the opening above the door, as he greeted both with a formal bend of the head and a patronizing glance.

His eyes had sparkled with boyish glee when he first caught sight of the friend from whom he had been separated several weeks, but to the stranger he wished to assume the bearing which beseemed a king.