HELIOGABALUS
[Vastly interested] So! You lay on hands? And do you yourself—that is to say, are you yourself a practitioner of this—this—laying on of hands?
[He leans over to glance cautiously at the door through which DACIA has gone]
LUCIA
My prayers have been answered. I take no reward. I would ask the Lord's mercies even for you, Cæsar.
HELIOGABALUS
Well, all I have to say is that you are a very nice girl. First you accuse me of murdering your friends, and now you say you are willing to pray for me,—and even to lay on hands.
LUCIA
It is the command: forgive those who have ill-used you.
HELIOGABALUS