She was disappointed; her intuition was perplexed.

He would complete his work and get away in time.
"My wife is here ?" he asked.
"She came yesterday," Amaryllis responded, clapping her hands in summons.

A female servant of such prepossessing appearance that Philadelphus looked at her again, bowed in the archway.
"Send hither the princess," Amaryllis said.
"The princess," Philadelphus repeated to himself.

"Then, by Ate, I am the prince!" "While we wait," Amaryllis continued, "let us talk of details which you may not have patience to hear after she comes.

Jerusalem, as you have learned, is in grave danger--" "Jerusalem should fear the Roman army less than herself.