Would Drusus never come?
The time was drifting on.

The sun had been up three or more hours.

At any instant the gladiators might arrive.
Then again there was a clatter of hoofs, at the very moment when Agias had again remounted to the loophole.

There were voices raised in questions and greetings; slave-boys were scampering to and fro to take the horses; Drusus with Pausanias and the Mamerci had returned from Lanuvium.

Agias pressed his head out the loophole and screamed to attract attention.