slave, and immediately mistook him for his own Dromio.
"Why are you back so soon? Where did you leave the money?" asked
Antipholus of Syracuse.

This Drornio knew of no money except sixpence, which he had received on
the previous Wednesday and given to the saddler; but he did know that
his mistress was annoyed because his master was not in to dinner, and he
asked Antipholus of Syracuse to go to a house called The Phoenix without
delay. His speech angered the hearer, who would have beaten him if he
had not fled. Antipholus of Syracuse them went to The Centaur, found
that his gold had been deposited there, and walked out of the inn.

He was wandering about Ephesus when two beautiful ladies signaled to him
with their hands. They were sisters, and their names were Adriana and
Luciana. Adriana was the wife of his brother Antipholus of Ephesus, and
she had made up her mind, from the strange account given her by Dromio
of Ephesus, that her husband preferred another woman to his wife. "Ay,
you may look as if you did not know me," she said to the man who was
really her brother-in-law, "but I can remember when no words were sweet
unless I said them, no meat flavorsome unless I carved it."

"Is it I you address?" said Antipholus of Syracuse stiffly. "I do not
know you."

"Fie, brother," said Luciana. "You know perfectly well that she sent
Dromio to you to bid you come to dinner;" and Adriana said, "Come, come;
I have been made a fool of long enough. My truant husband shall dine
with me and confess his silly pranks and be forgiven."

They were determined ladies, and Antipholus of Syracuse grew weary of
disputing with them, and followed them obediently to The Phoenix, where
a very late "mid-day" dinner awaited them.

They were at dinner when Antipholus of Ephesus and his slave Dromio
demanded admittance. "Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cecily, Gillian, Ginn!"
shouted Dromio of Ephesus, who knew all his fellow-servants' names by
heart.

From within came the reply, "Fool, dray-horse, coxcomb, idiot!" It was
Dromio of Syracuse unconsciously insulting his brother.

Master and man did their best to get in, short of using a crowbar, and
finally went away; but Antipholus of Ephesus felt so annoyed with his
wife that he decided to give a gold chain which he had promised her, to
another woman.

Inside The Phoenix, Luciana, who believed Antipholus of Syracuse to be
her sister's husband, attempted, by a discourse in rhyme, when alone
with h