Could thus have turned his temper. I am the cause, and one

Of two things it must be; either he is more offended with me

Than I supposed; or else, and this I hope and think,

My flight, breaking the bond that surely was the nearest

And dearest to him, has wrought upon him, and now he turns

And will consent: if that, ’tis well I am here: if not,

He must not come to know I am back in Athens: nay,

’Twould only vex him more: I must hide from him still:

For though there is nothing in the extremest scope of duty

In which I would not obey him but one thing, ’tis this thing