Pop. ’Tis good so far, but stays unkindly. Search,

I must know more. Above all things, the affair

Is secret. (Knocking heard.) I will send my servant to thee.

Thou must be gone: our business will not suffer

My husband stumbling on thee here. This way.

[Exit Seleucus, being put out.

My dream was true: my hopes and schemes inspired

Of heaven; yet this is far beyond them all.

Wife to two Cæsars; maybe, mother of Cæsars.

[Noise at door.