I am certain of this, and so must you be.

Yes, it was Fate.

Fate prompted the child's little hand to attempt its brother's life.

And that was long before my brain could form a thought or my baby-lips could stammer his hated name." "Then you tried to kill your brother even in infancy ?" asked Melissa, and her large eyes dilated with horror as she gazed at the terrible narrator.

But Caracalla went on, in an apologetic tone: "I was then but two years old.