I could not get near her.

But I got the casket." "She will come here then!" Philadelphus exclaimed.
"What of it! Amaryllis does not know her; no one else does.

And I have her proofs--and her dowry!" After a silence in which she read the expression on his face, she rose and came near him with determination in her manner.
"You will have the wisdom not to recognize her," she said, "lest I suddenly discover that you are not the Philadelphus I expected." He made rapid survey of her advantage over him, and submitted.
"But there will be no need of waiting for such an issue," he fumed, after a silence.

"I am here and not the Maccabee, whose crown you coveted.

We shall get out of this perilous city." "So ?" she said, lifting her finely penciled brows.