Take care!" "And do you take warning! A Livian never forgets! _Mars regat!_ Let War rule!" cried Drusus, turning at the vestibule, and brandishing a knotted fist.

Lentulus stared after him, half furious, half intimidated.

But Claudia glanced back into the room from the just emptied doorway, and gave a scream.
"The servants! Help! Water! Cornelia has fainted!" III Drusus strode down the long avenue of shade trees.

The gardener stared after him, as the young man went by, his face knitted with a scowl of combined pain and fury, with never a word in reply to the rustic's kindly salutation.
"_Papae!_"[83] muttered the man, "what has befallen Master Quintus?
Has he fallen out with her ladyship ?" [83] "Strange! Marvellous!" Drusus kept on, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, until he found himself past the boundary stone between his own estate and that of the Lentuli.

Then he stopped and passed his hand over his forehead.