But they were sly about my comical appearance while the leopard mauled and tousled me.
Two did not speak.
Vedia was cold and mute and spoke only when she rose, excusing herself to Nemestronia and calling for her litter first of them all.
Nemestronia was so weak from the reaction after her fright and so unwilling to display her weakness that she hardly spoke, limiting herself to the brief words courtesy demanded.
When I reached home I forgot everything else in my solicitude for Agathemer.

I not only called for my own physician, but sent urgent messages summoning Galen and Celsianus.

Celsianus was affronted at the suggestion that he stoop to prescribe for a slave and incensed at having been called in haste for such a trifle: but Galen, who came in while Celsianus was expressing his indignation, diverted his mind at once by rejoicing that I was sufficiently recovered to take that much interest in one of my slaves.

He made haste to see, inspect and assist Agathemer: when he was somewhat relieved and we had left him abed with Occo to watch him and with injunctions that quiet was the best medicine for him, Galen turned to me.
"You have had a shock," he said, "and a superabundance of excitement.

Tell me all about it." When I had told him what had happened, omitting only Vedia's disguise and her presence in the water-garden, he said: "I certainly should not have prescribed any such excitements and efforts as medicaments for a case like yours.