But Arsinoe only remembered these things to-day as a butterfly sporting in the sun may remember the hideous pupa-case that it has burst and left behind it.
Radiant with happy excitement, she was led to her seat with her young companion, the black-haired daughter of the shipwright.

She perceived indeed that numerous eyes turned upon her, but that only added to her pleasure, for she knew that she could well bear looking at, and there could be no greater pleasure, as she thought, than to give pleasure to a multitude.
To-day at any rate! For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her.

She could not keep her feet quiet, but she did contrive to keep her arms still by crossing them in front of her, so that they might not betray how excited she was.
This distribution of parts had already begun, for, by waiting for Selene, she had come in almost half an hour too late.

As soon as she saw that the eyes that had been attracted to herself as she entered the theatre had turned to other objects she herself looked round her.

She was sitting on a bench at the lowest and narrowest end of one of the wedge-shaped sections of seats, which grew wider at the upper end, and which were divided from each other by gangways for those who came and went, thus forming the semicircular area of the auditorium.
Here she was surrounded only by young girls and women who were to have a part or place in the performances.