AQUILIA
And ours.
PAULA
Yes, and theirs.
LUCIA
[Furiously] It's mine!
HELIOGABALUS
[Decisively] It's mine. [Coolly, with judicial poise] And it wouldn't be going too far, ladies, to say that I am scandalized by such proceedings. I really am. In all my experience, embracing many long years and the whole Roman empire, from Britain in the far North to Persia in the extreme—
PAULA
[Bursting into tears] You bring in a woman off the streets—