Clin. When will that presently be?
Clit. You don’t consider that it is a great way from here.[35] Besides, you know the ways of women, while they are bestirring themselves, and while they are making preparations a whole year passes by.
Clin. O Clitipho, I’m afraid—
Clit. Take courage. Look, here comes Dromo, together with Syrus: they are close at hand.
They stand aside.
[ Scene III.]
Enter Syrus and Dromo, conversing at a distance.
Syr. Do you say so?
Dro. ’Tis as I told you,—but in the mean time, while we’ve been carrying on our discourse, these women have been left behind.
Clit. (apart.) Don’t you hear, Clinia? Your mistress is close at hand.