He felt that he was treading on very dangerous ground.
"It is true," said he, trying painfully to answer as if the words cost him no thought.

"Antonius had met many of my father's old comrades in Gaul, and they had sent a number of kind messages to me.

Then, too, Balbus invited me to a dinner-party and there I met Curio, and a very pleasant time we had.

I cannot recall that they made any special efforts to enlist me as a partisan." In this last, Drusus spoke truly; for he had already thrown in his lot with the Caesarian cause.

But Lentulus knew enough of the case to realize that he was receiving not the whole truth but only a half; and being a man of a sharp temper that was under very imperfect control, threw diplomacy to the winds, and replied vehemently: "Don't attempt to cover up your folly! I know how you have put yourself in the power of those conspirators.