"Our estates are no worse managed than yours." "I only meant to say--" "That your Phaon seems to you well fitted to supply my master's place.

I think differently, and, if Lysander continues to improve, he'll learn to use his limbs again." "An invalid needs rest, and, since the deaths of your mistress and mine, quarrelling never ceases--" "We never disturb the peace." "And quarrelling is even more unpleasant to us than to you; but how often the shepherds and vine-dressers fight over the spring, which belongs to us both, and whose beautiful wall and marble bench are already damaged, and will soon be completely destroyed, because your master says mine ought to bear the expense of the work--" "And I daily strengthen him in this belief.

We repaired the inclosing wall of the spring, and it's only fair to ask Protarch to mend the masonry of the platform.

We won't yield, and if you--" "If we refuse to do Lysander's will, it will lead to the quarrelling I would fain prevent by Phaon's marriage with your Xanthe.

Your master is in the habit of following your advice, as if you were his own mother.
You nurse the poor invalid like one, and if you would only--" "Lysander has other plans, and Phaon's father is seeking an heiress for his son in Messina." "But surely not for the youth's happiness, nor do I come to speak to you in Protarch's name." "So you invented the little plan yourself--I am afraid without success, for I've already told you that my master has other views." "Then try to win him to our side--no, not only to us, but to do what is best for the prosperity of this house." "Not for this house; only for yourselves.