‘Ah, yes!’
‘He said that I died of fever.’
‘And she believes it?’
‘She does, Phroso; and she appears to be really very sorry.’
‘Ah, but what joy will be hers when she learns—’
‘But, Phroso, before she thought I was dead, she had made up her mind to wait no longer.’
‘To wait no longer? What do you mean? Ah, my lord, tell me what you mean!’
‘What has happened to me, here in Neopalia, Phroso?’
‘Many strange things, my lord—some most terrible.’
‘And some most—most what, Phroso? One thing that has happened to me has, I think, happened also to the lady who waited.’