Two talents for her portion.——How unjust

And absolute is custom! I must now

Leave every thing, and find a stranger out,

On whom I may bestow the sum of wealth

Which I have so much labor’d to acquire.

[ SCENE IX.]

Enter Menedemus.

Mene. (to himself). Oh son, how happy hast thou made thy father,

Convinc’d of thy repentance!

Chrem. (overhearing). How mistaken!