She is full of solicitude for you and will overwhelm you with dainties as soon as you are well enough to relish any." He did not mention Vedia and I was still too dazed, too numb, too weak, too acquiescent to ask after her, or even to think of asking after her or to notice that he had not mentioned her.
"While I was talking to Nemestronia," Tanno said, "I took care to warn her about that cursed leopard.

She would not agree to cage it, at least not permanently.

She did agree to cage it at night and said she would not let it have the run of her palace even by day, as it has since she first got it, but would keep it shut up in the shrubbery garden, as she calls it, where they usually feed it and where you and I have seen it crawl up on its victims and pounce on them." I could not be interested in leopards, or Nemestronia or even in Vedia, if he had mentioned Vedia.

I fell into a half doze.

Just on the point of going fast asleep I half roused, queerly enough.
"Caius!" I asked, "do you remember that man on horseback we passed in the rain between my road entrance and Vediamnum ?" "You can wager your estate I remember him!" Tanno replied.
"What sort of man was he ?" I queried, struggling with my tendency to sleep.