Ctes. Pray do so. Since this has turned out so well, let us make a cheerful day of it.
Ctesipho goes into the house of Micio; and exeunt Æschinus and Syrus, followed by Sannio.
[ ACT THE THIRD.]
[ Scene I.]
Enter Sostrata and Canthara, from the house of the former.
Sos. Prithee, my dear nurse, how is it like to end?
Can. Like to end, do you ask? I’troth, right well, I trust.
Sos. Her pains are just beginning, my dear.
Can. You are in a fright now, just as though you had never been present on such an occasion—never been in labor yourself.
Sos. Unfortunate woman that I am! I have not a person at home; we are quite alone; Geta too is absent. I have no one to go for the midwife, or to fetch Æschinus.