PYTH. Do you ask? Do you think of admitting him after this into your
house?

THAIS. Why not?

PYTH. Trust my word for it, he'll be creating some new disturbance.

THAIS. O dear, prithee, do hold your tongue.

PYTH. You seem to me to be far from sensible of his assurance.

CHAE. I'll not do any thing, Pythias.

PYTH. Upon my faith, I don't believe you, Chaerea, except in case you
are not trusted.

CHAE. Nay but, Pythias, do you be my keeper.

PYTH. Upon my faith, I would neither venture to give any thing to you
to keep, nor to keep you {myself}: away with you!

THAIS. Most opportunely the brother himself is coming.

CHAE. I'faith, I'm undone. Prithee, let's be gone in-doors, Thais.
I don't want him to see me in the street with this dress on.

THAIS. For what reason, pray? Because you are ashamed?

CHAE. Just so.

PYTH. Just so? But the young woman----

THAIS. Go first; I'll follow. You stay here, Pythias, that you may
show Chremes in. (_THAIS and CHAEREA go into the house._)

SCENE III.

_Enter CHREMES and SOPHRONA._

PYTH. (_to herself._) Well! what now can suggest itself to my mind?
What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain
who palmed this {fellow} off upon us?

CHREM. Really, do bestir yourself more quickly, nurse.

SOPH. I am bestirring.

CHREM. {So} I see; but you don't stir forward.

PYTH. (_to CHREMES._) Have you yet shown the tokens to the nurse?

CHREM. All of them.

PYTH. Prithee, what does she say? Does she recognize them?

CHREM. Yes, with a full recollection of them.

PYTH. Upon my faith, you do bring good news; for I {really} wish well
to this young woman. Go in-doors: my mistress has been for some time
expecting you at home. (_CHREMES and SOPHRONA go into THAIS'S house._)
But look, yonder I espy {that} worthy fellow, Parmeno, coming: just
see, for heaven's sake, how leisurely he moves along. I hope I have it
in my power to torment him after my own fashion. I'll go in-doors,
that I may know for certain about the discovery; afterward I'll come
out, and give this villain a terrible fright. (_Goes into the house._)

SCENE IV.

_Enter PARMENO._

PAR. (_to himself._) I've just come back to see what Chaerea has been
doing here. If he has managed the affair with dexterity, ye Gods, by
our trust in you, how great and genuine applause will Parmeno obtain!
For not to mention that a passion, full of difficulty and expense,
with which he was smitte