A curve of despair marked the corners of her mouth and she seemed to grow old before those that looked at her.
Philadelphus and the Greek sprang to their feet, the instant the group entered.
Laodice waited for no preliminary.

Amaryllis' design was patent to her; it was part of her sorrow that now Hesper would be free to the devices of this deceitful woman.

So she did not look at the Greek.

She addressed Philadelphus in a voice from which all hope and vivacity had gone.
"I have brought proofs.

Behold them!" Nathan, the Christian, stood forth.
"I, Nathan of Jerusalem, met and talked with this Laodice, daughter of Costobarus, in company with Aquila, the Ephesian, three men-servants in all the panoply and state of a coming princess three leagues out of Ascalon, her native city.