At that call one of the Grecians, the Phrygians, and the Ethiopians sprang up quickly, and vanished in a twinkle behind the curtain.

In the baths began a moment of license which the inspector did not prevent, for he took frequent part in such frolics himself.

Petronius suspected that they took place; but, as a prudent man, and one who did not like to punish, he looked at them through his fingers.
In the unctorium only Eunice remained.

She listened for a short time to the voices and laughter which retreated in the direction of the laconicum.

At last she took the stool inlaid with amber and ivory, on which Petronius had been sitting a short time before, and put it carefully at his statue.