"I can see him in the nearest carriage." And then all four broke out with their salutation, "_Salve! Salve, Domine!_"[4] "Good health to your lordship!" [4] Master, "Lord" of slaves and freedmen.
A little way behind the outriders rolled a comfortable, four-wheeled, covered carriage,[5] ornamented with handsome embossed plate-work of bronze.

Two sleek, jet-black steeds were whirling it swiftly onward.
Behind, a couple of equally speedy grey mules were drawing an open wagon loaded with baggage, and containing two smart-looking slave-boys.

But all four persons at the treadmill had fixed their eyes on the other conveyance.

Besides a sturdy driver, whose ponderous hands seemed too powerful to handle the fine leather reins, there were sitting within an elderly, decently dressed man, and at his side another much younger.

The former personage was Pausanias, the freedman and travelling companion[6] of his friend and patron, Quintus Livius Drusus, the "Master Drusus" of whom the slaves had been speaking.
Chloe's sharp eyes scanned her strange owner very keenly, and the impression he created was not in the least unfavourable.