"Well, he swore that he would come, yet it will bring him little nearer me;" and she turned and sought her chamber.
So Marcus had come.

Since he sent the letter and the ring that was upon her hand, and the pearls which were about her throat, she had heard no more of him.

Twice she had written and forwarded the writings by the most trusty messenger whom she could find, but whether they reached him she did not know.

For more than two years the silence between them had been that of death, till, indeed, at times she thought that he must be dead.

And now he was come back, a commander in the army of Titus, who marched to punish the rebellious Jews.