Drusus wrote that he could not for the time see that any good end would be served by coming to Rome, and he would remain for the present in Praeneste.

He and she must try to wait in patience, until politics took such a turn as would drive Lentulus into a more tractable attitude.
Cornelia found the days monotonous and dreary.

Her uncle's freedman kept her under constant espionage to prevent a chance meeting with Drusus, and but for Agias she would have been little better than a prisoner, ever in charge of his keepers.
In a way, however, Cornelia found that there was enough stirring in the outside world to lend zest and often venom to the average emptiness of polite conversation.

Politics were penetrating deeper and deeper into fashionable society.

Cornelia heard how Paulus, the consul, had taken a large present from Caesar to preserve neutrality; and how Curio, the tribune, had checked Clodius Marcellus, the other consul, when he wished to take steps in the Senate against Caesar.