Dav. (coming forward and pretending not to see them.) Ye Gods, by our trust in you! what a crowd there is in the Forum! What a lot of people are squabbling there! (Aloud.) Then provisions are so dear. (Aside.) What to say besides, I don’t know.
Chremes passes by Mysis, and goes to a distance at the back of the stage.
Mys. Pray, why did you leave me here alone?
Dav. (pretending to start on seeing the child.) Ha! what story is this? How now, Mysis, whence comes this child? Who has brought it here?
Mys. Are you quite right in your senses, to be asking me that?
Dav. Whom, then, ought I to ask, as I don’t see any one else here?
Chrem. (apart to himself.) I wonder whence it has come.
Dav. Are you going to tell me what I ask?
Mys. Pshaw!
Dav. (in a whisper.) Step aside to the right.