My young hound bays her welcome. Enter, sir.—

What! Gone? An armored man swooped like a hawk

Down the sheer ledges to the city’s core?

Beware, my fiery nameless half-a-Christian,

Hot for romance, beneath the stars of spring!

Well, well, well, well! Down, Demo. I believe

He’ll somehow free her: we shall have her back,

Good Demo.... Tut! of all the wild hawk-swoops!

III

Midnight. A brothel. Theodora alone. Didymus breaks in.