He would not reduce his sister's comforts in any way but he must break with Papias, and stand henceforth on his own feet.

His courage mounted fast, and when at last, Arsinoe returned from her sister, he had resolved that he must first finish Balbilla's bust with all diligence in his own workshop, and that then he would model his beloved; these two female heads he could not fail in.
Caesar must see them, they must be exhibited, and already in his mind's eye, he saw himself refusing order after order, and accepting only the most splendid where all were good.
Arsinoe went home comforted.

Selene's sufferings were certainly less than she had pictured them; she did not wish to be nursed by any one besides dame Hannah.

She might perhaps have a little fever, but any one who was capable of discussing every little question of house-keeping, and all that related to the children could not be--as Arsinoe thought while she walked back through the garden, leaning on the artist's arm--really and properly ill.
"It must revive and delight her to have Roxana for a sister!" cried Pollux; but his pretty companion shook her head and said: "She is always so odd; what most delights me is averse to her." "Well Selene is of course the moon, and you are the sun." "And what are you ?" asked Arsinoe.
"I am tall Pollux, and to-night I feel as if I might some day be great Pollux." "If you succeed I shall grow with you." "That will be your right, since it is only through you that I can ever succeed in that which I propose to do.
"And how should a simple little thing, such as I am, be able to help an artist ?" "By living, and by loving him," cried the sculptor, lifting her up in his arms before she could prevent him.
Outside the garden-gate the old slave-woman was sitting asleep.

She had learnt from the porter that her young mistress had been admitted with her companion, but she herself had been forbidden to enter the grounds.
A curbstone had served her for a seat, and as she waited her eyes had closed, in spite of the increasing noise in the street.