She must certainly have thought it right to act thus, and it must have been worthy of her, or she would not have carried her charming head so high, or looked him so freely and calmly in the face.
But how had she dared to come between him and his duty to his father and brother?
While he followed her closely and silently through the imperial rooms, the implicit obedience he had shown her became more and more difficult to comprehend; and when at last they stood in the empty corridor which divided Caesar's quarters from those of the high-priest, and Philostratus had returned to his post at the side of his sovereign, he could hold out no longer, and cried to her indignantly: "So far, I have followed you like a boy; I do not myself know why.

But it is not yet too late to turn round; and I ask you, what gave you the right to prevent my doing my best for our people ?" "Your loud talking, that threatened to wake Caesar," she replied, seriously.

"His sleeping could alone save me from watching by him the whole night." Alexander then felt sorry he had been so foolishly turbulent, and after Melissa had told him in a few words what she had gone through in the last few hours he informed her of what had brought him to visit the emperor so late.
Johannes the lawyer, Berenike's Christian freedman, he began, had visited their father in prison and had heard the order given to place Heron and Philip as state prisoners and oarsmen on board a galley.
This had taken place in the afternoon, and the Christian had further learned that the prisoners would be led to the harbor two hours before sunset.

This was the truth, and yet the infamous Zminis had assured the emperor, at noon, that their father and Philip were already far on their way to Sardinia.

The worthless Egyptian had, then, lied to the emperor; and it would most likely cost the scoundrel his neck.