_Davus._ Whom should I ask? I can see no one else here[175]. _Chremes._ (_aside._) I wonder whose child it is! _Davus._ Will you answer me or not? _Mysis._ Ah! _Davus._ (_aside to Mysis._) Move to the right. _Mysis._ Are you mad? was it not yourself? _Davus._ (_aside to Mysis._) Take care not to say a single syllable, except exact answers to the questions I put to you. _Mysis._ Do you threaten me? _Davus._ Whose child is it? (_Aside to Mysis._) Speak. _Mysis._ From our house. _Davus._ Ha! ha! this woman’s impudence is wonderful! _Chremes._ (_aside._) This girl belongs to the Andrian, I am pretty sure. _Davus._ Do we seem so fit to be imposed upon? _Chremes._ (_aside._) I came just in time. _Davus._ (_quite loud._) Make haste, and take the brat from our door. (_Aside to Mysis._) Don’t stir a step. _Mysis._ The deuce [176]take you, fellow, for terrifying me in this manner. _Davus._ Do you hear me or not? _Mysis._ What do you want? _Davus._ What! must I tell you again! whose child have you brought here? Answer me. _Mysis._ You know well enough whose child it is. _Davus._ Never mind what I know: tell me what I ask. _Mysis._ It belongs to your family. _Davus._ To our family! but to which of us? _Mysis._ To Pamphilus. _Davus._ Hey! what? to Pamphilus? (_very loud._) _Mysis._ Yes, can you deny it? _Chremes._ (_aside._) I acted wisely in avoiding the match[177]. _Davus._ What a disgraceful trick! it ought to be publicly exposed. _Mysis._ What are you making so much noise about? _Davus._ What did I see brought to your house yesterday? _Mysis._ O! impudent fellow! _Davus._ ’Tis true: I saw old Canthara, with something under her cloak[178]. _Mysis._ Thank Heaven, that there were some free women present when my mistress was delivered[179ᴬ]. _Davus._ She knows little of the man she wants to practise these tricks upon: do you think that if Chremes saw this child before our door, he would refuse us his daughter on that account? I say he would give her more willingly. _Chremes._ (_aside._) Not he, indeed. _Davus._ And, to be short with you, that you may understand me at once, if you don’t take away the child instantly, I’ll roll him into the middle of the street, and you, Madam, into the kennel. _Mysis._ [179ᴮ]By Pollux, fellow, you are drunk. _Davus._ One falsehood brings on another: [180]I hear it whispered about, that she is a citizen of Athens. _Chremes._ (_aside._) How! _Davus._ And that he will be compelled to marry her[181]. _Mysis._ What then, pray, is she not a citizen? _Chremes._ (_aside._) By Jupiter, I have narrowly escaped making myself a common laughing-stock to all the town. _Davus._ (_turning round suddenly._) Who speaks there? Oh Chremes! you are come just in time: listen―――― _Chremes._ I have heard every thing. _Davus._ What, Sir, heard all, did you say? _Chremes._ I tell you, I heard all from the beginning.