HELIOGABALUS
[Himself completely gone] I am done with my other wives!
LUCIA
Done with them?
HELIOGABALUS
Henceforth and for ever! You shall be my one wife! And your faith my faith!
LUCIA
[Wide-eyed] You mean—you mean, Cæsar, that through me, through love for me, you have come to see the light?
HELIOGABALUS
[Swung along by the situation] I mean, my fair maiden, that I have seen some kind of light in your beautiful eyes. I don't know just what it is, or exactly what it stands for, but I love you, adore you, want you—and am willing to follow it—blindly.