“Thy sisters, Agrippina and Drusilla, will then remain for their midday meal in the house of mourning with thy cousin Julia?” inquired Agrippina, as she again reclined upon the couch in the middle room.
“Ay, mother.”
“And Nero, where didst thou leave him?”
“He left me in the Forum.”
“Whither did he go?”
“He went to the camp to see Sejanus.”
“Possibly the games will be postponed now that Drusus is dead,” said Agrippina. “In one year thou, too, my son, wilt reach the manly age. By that time Nero will be wed.”
“Whom will he wed, O mother?”
“The emperor has not made his—”
But she was interrupted by the appearance of Nero, who entered the atrium, and sitting down on his mother’s couch, sadly said, “’Tis over!”