To break the match: when the occasion’s past
That urges them to this, they will desist.
Chremes. Oh, you mistake: e’en now I saw the maid
Wrangling with Davus.
Simo. Artifice! mere trick.
Chremes. Aye, but in earnest; and when neither knew
That I was there.
Simo. It may be so: and Davus
Told me beforehand they’d attempt all this;
Though I, I know not how, forgot to tell you.