HELIOGABALUS
You do—but you come back one by one.
CÆLESTIS
But where will the rest of us sleep?
HELIOGABALUS
Where you have been sleeping—during the late revolution. Sleep wherever you please. If the palace isn't big enough, I'll have barracks built.
PAULA
[Maudlinly] Oh, my poor head! I can't understand a thing he says!
HELIOGABALUS
Let me explain. The old system had its advantages. I was used to it and strongly approved it. But the older I get, the more I learn. At ninety or a hundred I should be genuinely wise. One thing I have learned is that the Christian system, too, has—