Then she kissed Miriam and left her to her rest.
When Miriam came out of her bedchamber on the following morning, she found Gallus clad in his body armour, now new cleaned, though dinted with many a blow, standing in the court and watching the water which squirted from a leaden pipe to fall into a little basin.
"Greeting, daughter," he said, looking up.

"I trust that you have rested well beneath my roof who have sojourned so long in tents." "Very well," she answered, adding, "If I might ask it, why do you wear your mail here in peaceful Rome ?" "Because I am summoned to have an audience of Caesar, now within an hour." "Is Titus come, then ?" she asked hurriedly.
"Nay, nay, not Titus Caesar, but Vespasian Caesar, his father, to whom I must make report of all that was passing in Judaea when we left, of the treasure that I brought with me and--of yourself." "Oh! Gallus," said Miriam, "will he take me away from your charge ?" "I know not.

I hope not.

But who can say?
It is as his fancy may move him.

But if he listens to me I swear that you shall stay here for ever; be sure of that." Then he went, leaning on a spear shaft, for the wound in his leg had caused it to shrink so much that he could never hope to be sound again.
Three hours later he returned to find the two women waiting for him anxiously enough.