The high walls will cut off any screams you may utter in this court.

I have you in my power.

You have placed yourself in my hands by coming here.

Refuse to do as I say, and a charge will be laid against you before the _pontifices_,[109] that you have broken the vow which binds every Vestal.

All the appearances will be against you, and you know what will follow then!" [109] College of chief priests.
Fabia grew a shade paler, if it were possible, than before.
"I know," she replied, still very gently, "that an unfaithful Vestal is buried alive in the Campus Sceleratus; but I know, too, that her seducer is beaten to death with rods.