Chæ. I’faith, I’m undone. Prithee, let’s be gone in-doors, Thais. I don’t want him to see me in the street with this dress on.
Thais. For what reason, pray? Because you are ashamed?
Chæ. Just so.
Pyth. Just so? But the young woman——
Thais. Go first; I’ll follow. You stay here, Pythias, that you may show Chremes in.
Thais and Chærea go into the house.
[ Scene III.]
Enter Chremes and Sophrona.
Pyth. (to herself.) Well! what now can suggest itself to my mind? What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this fellow off upon us?
Chrem. Really, do bestir yourself more quickly, nurse.