Then I go too!
HELIOGABALUS
But that's really too much! [Bracing up perceptibly] It's really more than I deserve, fair gooseberry!
LUCIA
[Rising to eloquence] I turn my back on Nineveh. Out there in the West—[her arms flung wide toward the audience]—there is my work. There I shall preach the Word. Far from these Roman cities and the sins of men. There lies the future harvest of the Lord.
HELIOGABALUS
[Appraising the audience. Somewhat doubtfully] Um—well—I wish you luck. [Eagerly] But could you get ready in time? You see, Simon is leaving at once.
LUCIA
I go with him.
HELIOGABALUS