"Oh! my lord. I beg you, entreat you—"
"Out with the word, and I go on my way, but if you persist in refusing—"
"Really and truly it only concerns a white-faced girl whom you would not even look at."
"A girl-indeed!"
"Our big dog threw the poor thing down."
"In the street?"
"No, at Lochias. Her father is Keraunus the palace-steward."
"And her name is Arsinoe?" asked Verus with undisguised concern, for he had a pleasant recollection of the beautiful child who had been selected to fill the part of Roxana.
"No, her name is Selene, Arsinoe indeed is her younger sister."
"Then you bring these flowers from Lochias?"