Caesar was anxious to bring them into fashion, and it might safely be expected that those Alexandrians who had held out their hands to accept them would appear in them on the morrow, as no order required that they should be worn.

Alexander could not do better than wear one, if only by such means he could escape Zminis and his men.
But who were the women he was pursuing?
Before Melissa could ask the question, Andreas pointed to the foremost boat, and said: "Those are Christian women, and the bark they are in belongs to Zeno, the brother of Seleukus and of the high-priest of Serapis.

That is his landing-creek.

He lives with his family, and those of the faith to whom he affords refuge, in the long, white house you can just see there among the palm-trees.

Those vineyards, too, are his.