and take her with me!"

And she raised her arm, as if she would throw a stone into the distance.

She impetuously embraced the young girl, took leave of her sister-in-law,
and left the room with Alexander.

Directly Euryale was alone with Melissa, she comforted the girl in her
kind, composed manner; for the unhappy matron's gloomy presentiments had
filled Melissa with fresh anxieties.

And what had she not gone through during the day!

Soon after her perilous interview with Caracalla, Timotheus, with the
chief of the astrologers from the Serapeum, and the emperor's astronomer,
had come to her, to ask her on what day and at what hour she was born.
They also inquired concerning the birthdays of her parents, and other
events of her life. Timotheus had informed her that the emperor had
ordered them to cast her nativity.

Soon after dinner she had gone, accompanied by the lady Berenike, who had
found her at the chief priest's house, to visit her lover in the sick-
rooms of the Serapeum. Thankful and happy, she had found him with fully
recovered consciousness, but the physician and the freedman Andreas, whom
she met at the door of the chamber, had impressed on her the importance
of avoiding all excitement. So it had not been possible for her to tell
him what had happened to her people, or of the perilous step she had
taken in order to save them. But Diodoros had talked of their wedding,
and Andreas could confirm the fact that Polybius wished to see it
celebrated as soon as possible.