Reassured that no one was near, she emerged and passing down the hall entered the court.
And there presently he joined her.
He sat down on one of the stone seats and smiled at her.
"Do I appear excited ?" he asked.
She glanced at him indifferently.
"No," she said.
"I have this day seen destruction resolved for the city." She took his easy declaration with a frown.

If it were true he should not show that flippancy; if it were not he should not have jested.
"I saw," he continued, "Titus and his beloved Nicanor ride around the walls.

Though they were the full length of a bow-shot from me, I knew what they talked about.

Now, this young Nicanor is a gad that tickles Titus when his soft heart would urge him into tendernesses toward the enemy.

But for Nicanor, Titus would have withdrawn his legions long ago and left Jerusalem to die of its own violences.
"On the day that you came into Jerusalem, Titus, as a display of amicable intentions, rode up to the walls without arms or armor, trusting to the Jews' soldierly honor in refusing to attack an unarmed man.