Julia glanced at his face as he came through the door of the street wall into the vestibulum or courtyard where they were waiting.
"Have no fear," she said.

"When Gallus looks so solemn he brings good tidings, for if they are bad he smiles and makes light of them," and advancing she took him by the hand and led him past the porter's room into the atrium.
"What news, husband ?" she asked when the door was shut behind them so that none might overhear their talk.
"Well," he answered, "first, my fighting days are over, since I am discharged the army, the physicians declaring that my leg will never be well again.

Wife, why do you not weep ?" "Because I rejoice," answered Julia calmly.

"Thirty years of war and bloodshed are enough for any man.

You have done your work.