You, and others like you, know nothing of small things, for you are sheltered by walls and privileges.

We are every man's game, while they approach you as humbly as if you were goddesses .-- Besides! It is not only what I have heard from Karnis, who knows the world and fine folks like you; I have seen it for myself at Rome, in the senators' houses, where there were plenty of young lords and great men's daughters--for I have not gone through life with my eyes shut; with you love is like lukewarm water in a bath, but it catches us like fire.

Sappho of Lesbos flung herself from the Leucadian rock because Phaon flouted her, and if I could save Marcus from any calamity by doing the same, I would follow her example .-- You have a lover, too; but your feeling for him, with all the 'intellect' and 'reflections,' and 'thought' of which you spoke, cannot be the right one.

There is no but or if in my love at any rate; and yet, for all that, my heart aches so sorely and beats so wildly, I will wait patiently with Eusebius and submit to whatever I am bidden .-- And in spite of it all you condemn me unheard, for you....

But why do you stand and look like that?
You look just like you did that time when I heard you sing.