HELIOGABALUS
Well, then, how do you make it out that I have sinned? If it's all right to marry one wife, why should it be a sin to marry another wife?
LUCIA
You are mocking me, Cæsar.
HELIOGABALUS
Not at all, I assure you. I am quite serious. Just why should it be a sin, as you call it, to marry more than one?
LUCIA
There are many reasons, Cæsar. The Lord has spoken. A man, in His eyes, can truly love but one woman.
HELIOGABALUS
Fiddlesticks, little prune cake. I have eleven wives, and I love no less than four of them.