LUCIA
[Querulously] You seem to sympathize with him.
HELIOGABALUS
In a sense, yes. Things are not as they used to be—not as he likes them. Rufinius, you see, is getting old, and old fellows dislike changes.
LUCIA
Have I changed anything?
HELIOGABALUS
You surely have. The palace is not quite the—well, not quite what it used to be.
LUCIA