(_aside_) What in the world is he back for so soon after saying he must hurry off! Is he trying me on purpose, does he want to test how much I miss him when he goes? Bless his heart, I have no objection to his coming home again! _Sos._ Amphitruo, redire ad navem meliust nos. (_seeing her_) We had better make for the ship once more, sir. _Amph._ Qua gratia? Why? _Sos._ Quia domi daturus nemo est prandium advenientibus No one at home is going to give the new arrivals a breakfast, that is why. _Amph._ Qui tibi nunc istuc in mentemst? And how does that thought happen to occur to you? _Sos._ Quia enim sero advenimus. Because we’ve come too late. _Amph._ Qui? How so? _Sos._ Quia Alcumenam ante aedis stare saturam intellego. (_pointing_) Well, there’s mistress in front of the house, and she has a sort of well-fed look about her. _Amph._ Gravidam ego illanc hic reliqui, quom abeo. I had hopes when I went away, Sosia, of being made a father. _Sos._ Ei perii miser. Heaven help me! _Amph._ Quid tibi est? What is the matter? _Sos._ Ad aquam praebendam commodum adveni domum, decumo post mense, ut rationem te putare intellego 670 (_disgustedly_) I have got home exactly in time to draw the water: it is the tenth month since, according as I follow your reckoning. _Amph._ Bono animo es. (_laughing_) Cheer up, cheer up! _Sos._ Scin quam bono animo sim? si situlam cepero, numquam edepol tu mihi divini creduis post hunc diem, ni ego illi puteo, si occepso, animam omnem inter traxero. Know how cheerful I am, do you, sir? Let me get hold of a bucket, and by gad, don’t ever trust my sacred oath again, if I do not drain that well of its last breath, once I begin. _Amph._ Sequere hac me modo, alium ego isti rei allegabo, ne time. Come now, this way with me. (_moves toward house again_) I will appoint some one else to that office, never fear. _Alc._ Magis nunc me meum officium facere, si huic eam advorsum, arbitror. (_aside_) I suppose it would be more duteous of me to go to meet him. (_advances slowly_) _Amph._ Amphitruo uxorem salutat laetus speratam suam, quam omnium Thebis vir unam esse optimam diiudicat, quamque adeo cives Thebani vero rumiferant probam. valuistin usque? exspectatum advenio? (_with playful courtliness_) Gladly does Amphitryon greet his darling wife, whom her husband judges to be the one best lady in all Thebes; yea, and justly do the citizens of Thebes bruit her virtue. (_earnestly_) Have you been well all this time? Are you glad to see me? _Sos._ Haud vidi magis. exspectatum eum salutat magis haud quicquam quam canem. 680 (_aside_) Glad? None more so! Welcomes him about as warmly as she would a dog! _Amph._