Maronis.
[Explaining.] If you were not a deserving but unfortunate Christian, Valentinus, you would not have forgotten that in the days about the Ides of February the young god Faunus, protector of those same green children of the earth, returns from his winter quarters in Arcadia to Italy!
Valentinus.
[Remembering.] Ah, true! Nevertheless.... [Still puzzled.]
Maronis.
[Continuing.] And Tertulla is wonted to celebrate the feast of the Faunalia at the villa, offering sacrifice in her garden to the two-horned god!
Tertulla.
It is indeed so!
[Pertinax opens the door softly a crack and peeps in, seen only by Valentinus.]
Valentinus.