Camma.

(Reads) “You are to seize on Sinnatus,—if——”

Synorix.

(Snatches paper.) No more.

What follows is for no wife’s eyes. O Camma,

Rome has a glimpse of this conspiracy;

Rome never yet hath spar’d conspirator.

Horrible! flaying, scourging, crucifying——

Camma.

I am tender enough. Why do you practise on me?