I am only concerned for his welfare and the welfare of the city of our fathers.

For it is not himself that his luxurious indolence affects; but all the unhappy city which is suffering while he is able to help it.

He must be saved.

And I shall go with him out of this house into want and peril, but he shall be saved." Laodice said nothing.

She stood drawn up intensely; her brows knitted; her teeth on her lip; her insulted pride and growing resolution effecting a certain magnificence in her pose.
"I can find her another house," Amaryllis said.
"Also my husband can find it," the woman broke in.