Love comes from the soul.

HELIOGABALUS

Yes, even the soul takes a hack at it.

[He starts to climb into the small bed]

LUCIA

[Loudly] Where are you going?

HELIOGABALUS

[His leg in mid-air, coaxing in baby-like tone] Please! I don't want to sleep over there—[indicating the big bed]—in Siberia. It's so cold—and when I get cold it always gives me my stomach-ache.

LUCIA

No! One must not think of the flesh, Cæsar.