And Gula?
True, her little round face is fresh and not ill-looking--but the model of a goddess requires something more.
That can only be obtained in Alexandria.

What do not the women there do for the care of the body! They learn it in the Aphrodision, as the boys study reading and writing.

But you! What do you here know even about colouring the eyelids and the lips, curling the hair, and treating the nails on the hands and feet?
And the clothes! You let them hang just as you put them on, and my master's work is full of folds and little lines in the robe and the peplos--But I have staid too long already.

Do you really insist upon meeting Hermon again?
"I will and must see him," she eagerly declared.
"Well, then," he answered harshly.

"But if you cast my warning to the winds, pity will also fly away with it." "I do not need it," the girl retorted in a contemptuous tone.
"Then let Fate take its course," said the slave, shrugging his shoulders regretfully.