With these world-hungry fingers!

(From behind Nero, enter Page—a little boy—bearing a goblet of wine on a salver. Nero turns, startled.)

Ah!—You!—You!

Page

I bring wine, mighty Caesar.

(Nero passes his hand across his face, and the expression of fright leaves.)

Nero

So you do—

I saw—the boy Brittanicus!—One sees—

Things—does one not?—such eerie nights as these?