POLORUS
Ah! So much for that!
HELIOGABALUS
[Herding the wives toward the door] And now you girls try to get some rest, and leave the doctors with poor Lucia. I'm afraid it may be a case for immediate operation. They'll have to examine her from head to foot.
LUCIA
[From the bed] I won't have any operation! I won't be examined from head to foot! The power of the spirit is enough.
PISO
Oh, hardly.
LUCIA
[Petulantly] I refuse to be cut up!