I am Laodice." "Laodice!" he repeated amiably.

"A familiar name; eh, Amaryllis ?" Laodice waited.

Philadelphus looked again at her and appeared to wait.
"I am Laodice," the girl repeated, a little disconcerted, "thy wife." "So!" Philadelphus exclaimed.
There was such well-assumed astonishment in the exclamation that she raised her eyes quickly to his face.

There was another expression there; one wholly incredulous.
"Now did I in the profligacy of mine extreme youth marry two Laodices ?" he said.

"For another Laodice, wife to me, joined me some days since." Laodice gazed at him without comprehending.
"I say," he repeated, "that my wife Laodice joined me some time ago." "Why, I--I am Laodice, daughter to Costobarus, and thy wife!" she exclaimed, while her eyes fixed upon him the full force of her astonishment.
He turned to Amaryllis.
"What labyrinth is this, O my friend," he asked, "in which thou hast set my feet ?" "I do not know," Amaryllis laughed suddenly.