Perhaps she might yet succeed in repairing the mischief she had done when she had allowed the emperor to sleep without giving one thought to her father.

Instead of waking him, she had misused her new power over her brother, and, by preventing his speaking, had perhaps frustrated the rescue of her people.
But idle lamenting was of as little use here as at any other time; so she resolutely drew her veil closer round her head and called to her brother, "Wait here till I return!" "What are you going to do ?" asked Alexander, startled.
"I am going back to the invalid," she explained, decisively.
On this her brother seized her arm, and, wildly excited, forbade this step in the name of his father.
But at his vehement shout, "I will not allow it!" she struggled to free herself, and cried out to him: "And you?
Did not you, whose life is a thousand times more important than mine, of your own free-will go into captivity and to death in order to save our father ?" "It was for my sake that he had been robbed of his freedom," interrupted Alexander; but she added, quickly: "And if I had not thought only of myself, the command to release him and Philip would by this time have been at the harbor.

I am going." Alexander then took his hand from her arm, and exclaimed, as if urged by some internal force, "Well, then, go!" "And you," continued Melissa, hastily, "go and seek the lady Euryale.
She is expecting me.

Tell her all, and beg her in my name to go to rest.

Also tell her I remembered the sentence about the time, which was fulfilled.