But I had now no choice.

'The best is yet to come, sire,' I went on, 'as I think you will acknowledge in a moment.

Dromio, though he had discovered his mistress, was still in the depths of despair.

He wandered round and round the house, seeking ingress and finding none, until at length, sunset approaching, and darkness redoubling his fears for the nymph, fortune took pity on him.

As he stood in front of the house he saw the abductor come out, lighted by two servants.