She was always telling how lonesome she was with only old Sesostris for company, before she knew Agias.

Once when the latter was late in his daily visit, he was delighted to find scribbled on the wall, "Artemisia to her Agias: you are real mean." Agias hated to make her erase it lest it fall under Pratinas's eagle eye.
But still Sesostris had nothing to tell about the plot against Drusus.
Some days passed.

Agias began to grow uneasy.

Sesostris had represented that he was conversant with everything his master had on foot; but Pratinas might have been more discreet than to unfold all his affairs, even before his servant; and then, too, there was always the possibility that Sesostris was playing fast and loose, and about to betray Agias to his master.

So the latter grew disquieted, and found it a little hard to preserve the character of cheerful mystery which he simulated to Cornelia.