Pam. This day—
Dav. Why keep dinning me with it, when I know it all? (To Pamphilus.) This are you afraid of, lest you should marry her; and you (to Charinus,) lest you should not marry her.
Char. You understand the matter.
Pam. That’s the very thing.
Dav. And that very thing is in no danger; trust me for that.
Pam. I do entreat you, release wretched me as soon as possible from this apprehension.
Dav. Well, then, I will release you; Chremes is not going to give you his daughter at present.
Pam. How do you know?
Dav. You shall know. Your father just now laid hold of me; he said that a wife was to be given you to-day, and many other things as well, which just now I haven’t time to relate. Hastening to you immediately, I ran on to the Forum that I might tell you these things. When I didn’t find you, I ascended there to a high place.[51] I looked around; you were nowhere. There by chance I saw Byrrhia, his servant (pointing to Charinus). I inquired of him; he said he hadn’t seen you. This puzzled me. I considered what I was to do. As I was returning in the mean time, a surmise from the circumstances themselves occurred to me: “How now,—a very small amount of good cheer; he out of spirits; a marriage all of a sudden; these things don’t agree.”
Pam. But to what purpose this?