Apollonius is intolerable.

Let us send him to meet my husband." "Then I will remain," answered Verus, as pleased as a wilful boy who has got his own way.
"Fickle as the wind," murmured Sabina, threatening him with her finger.
"Show me the stone--it is one of the largest and finest; you may keep it." When an hour later, Verus quitted the hall with the prefect, Titianus said: "You have done me a service cousin, without knowing it.

Now can you contrive that Ptolemaeus and Favorinus shall go with Apollonius to meet the Emperor at Pelusium ?" "Nothing easier" was the answer.
And the same evening the prefect's steward conveyed to Pontius the information that he might count on having probably fourteen days for his work, instead of eight or nine only..