I did not expect you till supper was over." "I have come only to go again," replied Titianus, entering his wife's room.

"Have some bread brought to me and a cup of mixed wine; why--really! here stands all I want ready as if I had ordered it.

You are right, I was with Sabina a shorter time than usual; but she exerted herself in that short time to utter as many sour words as if we had been talking for half a day.

And in five minutes I must quit you again, till when ?--the gods alone know when I shall return.

It is hard even to speak the words, but all our trouble and care, and all poor Pontius' zeal and pains-taking labor are in vain." As he spoke the prefect threw himself on a couch; his wife handed him the refreshment he had asked for, and said, as she passed her hand over his grey hair: "Poor man! Has Hadrian then determined after all to inhabit the Caesareum ?" "No.