What better than the recovery of the daughter he in a day gone by rescued from the funeral flames?
Asterius.
Felicitous omen! It shall be done immediately! [He claps his hands.] Ho, Pertinax!... Nerva, summon my household! [Pertinax enters, then Nerva.]
Valentinus.
Softly! Let us go softly! [Tertulla enters with Maronis followed by Quartilla.] First, Tertulla has something to tell her father!
Asterius.
[Arms out to Tertulla.] My child! My poor, afflicted child! Well, what has she to tell me: that good Valentinus has made her strong and well again?
Tertulla.
Oh, more ... far more than that! Look, father....