and I never saw you in purple, but just as you had stood there on the steps;...

and then--ah! I have told you already how sorry I was for your sufferings.
I felt as if...

but how can I describe it truly ?--as if you stood much nearer to me than the ruler of the world could to a poor, humble girl.
It was...

eternal gods!..." She stopped short; for she suddenly recollected anxiously that this confession might prove fatal to her.

The sentence about the time which should be fulfilled for each was ringing in her ears, and it seemed to her that she heard for the second time the lady Berenike's warning.
But Caracalla allowed her no time to think; for he interrupted her, greatly pleased, with the cry: "It is true, then! The immortals have wrought as great a miracle in you as in me.