You will gain nothing more here.

Take my word for it, I know the man and his fellow-men; he actually knows nothing of where your wife is hiding, and you are only wasting the time and strength which you would do better to save, in order to search for Sirona.

I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin." "And so," laughed the Gaul, "find what she seeks--variety, and every kind of pleasure.

For a young thing like that, who loves amusement, there is no pleasant occupation but vice.

But I will spoil her game; you are right, it is not well to give her too long a start.