You can go to your sister and take the old woman with you." "Very good, and to-morrow early I will come back." "To-morrow morning ?" said Keraunus surprised.

"No, no, that will not do.
Doris said just now that Selene will be well nursed by the Christians.
Only see how she is, give her my love, and then come back." "But father--" "Besides you must remember that the prefect's wife expects you to-morrow at noon to choose the stuff for your dress, and you must not look as if you had been sitting up all night." "I will rest a little while in the morning." "In the morning?
And how about curling my hair?
And your new frock?
And poor little Helios ?--No child, you are only just to see Selene and then come back again.

Early in the morning too the holiday will have begun, and you know what goes on then; the old woman would be of no use to you in the throng.

Go and see how Selene is, you are not to stay." "I will see--" "Not a word about seeing--you come home again.

I desire it; in two hours you are to be in bed." Arsinoe shrugged her shoulders, and two minutes after she was standing with the old slave-woman in front of the gate-house.
A broad beam of light still fell through the half-open door of the bowery little room, so Euphorion and Doris had not retired to rest and could at once open the palace-gate for her.