They become familiar through pleasant greetings, pretty speeches, kisses, cooey, captivating little whispers. If he cuddles her close in his arms, well, no harm to the fowler. If he takes a naughty kind of kiss, he can be taken himself, and no net needed. You to forget all this, and so long in the school, too? _Argyr._ Tua ista culpa est, quae discipulum semidoctum abs te amoves. It’s your fault, if I have: you expelled your pupil when he was half taught. _Cle._ Remeato audacter, mercedem si eris nactus; nunc abi. Trot along back to us boldly, if you find the tuition fee: for the present run away. (_turns to go in_) _Argyr._ Mane, mane, audi. dic, quid me aequom censes pro illa tibi dare, annum hunc ne cum quiquam alio sit? Wait, wait, listen! Tell me, what do you think I ought to give you to have her all to myself this next year? _Cle._ Tene? viginti minas; 230 atque ea lege: si alius ad me prius attulerit, tu vale. (_laughingly_) What? You? (_after a pause_) Eighty pounds: yes, and on this condition--if some one else brings me the money before you do, good-bye to you. (_again turning to go_) _Argyr._ At ego est etiam prius quam abis quod volo loqui. But there’s something more I want to say before you go. _Cle._ Dic quod lubet. Say on, anything. _Argyr._ Non omnino iam perii, est relicuom quo peream magis. habeo unde istuc tibi quod poscis dem; sed in leges meas dabo, uti scire possis, perpetuom annum hunc mihi uti serviat nec quemquam interea alium admittat prorsus quam me ad se virum. I’m not entirely ruined yet: there is a balance left for further ruin. I can give you what you ask. But I’ll give it to you on my own terms, and here they are--she’s to be at my disposal this whole next year through, and all that time not a single man but me is to come near her. _Cle._ Quin, si tu voles, domi servi qui sunt castrabo viros. postremo ut voles nos esse, syngraphum facito adferas; ut voles, ut tibi lubebit, nobis legem imponito: modo tecum una argentum adferto, facile patiar cetera. 240 portitorum simillumae sunt ianuae lenoniae: si adfers, tum patent, si non est quod des, aedes non patent. (_cheerfully ironical_) Why, if you choose, I’ll change all the men servants in the house to maids. In short, bring along a contract stating how you wish us to behave. All you desire, all you like,--impose your own terms on us: only bring along the money, too; the rest is easy for me. Our doors are much like those of a custom house: pay your fee, and they are open: if you can’t, they are--(_going into house and closing the door in his face with a provoking laugh_) not open. _Argyr._