But my distress admits no remedy.

For, if the secret’s kept, I live in fear;

And if reveal’d, I am expos’d to shame.

Nor would I now return, but in the hope

Of still possessing her.—But where is Geta?

That I may learn of him the fittest time

To meet my father.

[ SCENE VII.]

Enter, at a distance, Phormio.

Phor. (to himself). I’ve receiv’d the money;