On the way you shall tell me everything." "Only one moment's patience," she begged, cheerfully, and hurried into the chief priest's rooms.

The lady Euryale was still expecting her, and as she kissed her she looked with sincere pleasure into her bright but tearful eyes.
At first she was bent on making Melissa rest; for she would yet require all her strength.

But she saw that the girl's wish to go and meet her father was justifiable; she placed her own mantle over her shoulders--for the air was cool before sunrise--and at last accompanied her into the anteroom.

Directly the girl had disappeared, she turned to her sister-in-law's slave, who had waited there the whole night by order of his mistress, and desired him to go and report to her what he had learned about Melissa.
The brother and sister met the slave Argutis outside the Serapeum.

He had heard at Seleukus's house where his young mistress was staying, and had made friends with the chief priest's servants.
When, late in the evening, he heard that Melissa was still with Caesar, he had become so uneasy that he had waited the whole night through, first on the steps of a staircase, then walking up and down outside the Serapeum.