Before the Prefect, with, if possible,

Twice the light-heartedness of old. As though

On some inauguration he expects,

To-day, the world's fate hung!

Dja. —And asks for me?

Kha. Thou knowest all things. Thee in chief he greets,

But every Druse of us is to be happy

At his arrival, he declares: were Loys

Thou, Master, he could have no wider soul

To take us in with. How I love that Loys!