Antea rubbed her forehead with her emaciated hand.
"And is he certain that it is possible to live and be happy after death?"
"That is why neither the cross nor death terrify him."
"How good that would be, Caius!
"How does he know this?" inquired she, after a while.
The procurator waved his hand: "He says that he knows it from the Father of all, who for the Jews is the same as Jove for us, with this difference, that, according to the Nazarene, the Father alone is one and merciful."
"How good that would be, Caius!" repeated the sick woman.
Cinna opened his lips as if to make some answer, but remained silent; and the conversation stopped. Evidently Pontius was continuing to think of the strange doctrine of the Nazarene, for he shook his head and shrugged his shoulders repeatedly. At last he rose and began to take leave.
All at once Antea said,—
"Caius, let us go to look at that Nazarene."