PHILO. What am I to do? My father will, just now, be coming and unfortunately finding me amid drunken carousals, _and_ the house full of revellers and women. It's a shocking bad job, to be digging a well at the last moment, just when thirst has gained possession of your throat; just as I, on the arrival of my father, wretch that I am, am now enquiring what I am to do. TRA. (_pointing at_ CALLIDAMATES). Why look, he has laid down his head and gone to sleep. Do arouse him. PHILO. (_shaking him_). Will you awake now? My father, I tell you, will be here this instant. CALL. How say you? Your father? Give me my shoes, that I may take up arms. On my word, I'll kill your father this instant. PHILO. (_seizing hold of him_). You're spoiling the _whole_ business; do hold your tongue. (_To_ DELPHIUM.) Prithee, do carry him off in your arms into the house. CALL. (_To_ DELPHIUM, _who is lifting him up_). Upon my faith, I'll be making an utensil of you just now, if you don't find me one. (_He is led off into the house._) PHILO. I'm undone! TRA. Be of good courage; I'll cleverly find a remedy for this alarm. PHILO. I'm utterly ruined! TRA. Do hold your tongue; I'll think of something by means of which to alleviate this for you. Are you satisfied, if on his arrival I shall so manage your father, not only that he shall not enter, but even that he shall run away to a distance from the house? Do you only be off from here in-doors, and remove these things from here with all haste. PHILO. Where am I to be? TRA. Where you especially desire: with her (_pointing to_ PHILEMATIUM); with this girl, _too_, you'll be. (_Pointing to_ DELPHIUM.) DEL. How then? Are we to go away from here? TRA. Not far from here, Delphium. For carouse away in the house not a bit the less on account of this. PHILO. Ah me! I'm in a sweat with fear as to how these fine words are to end! TRA. Can you not be tranquil in your mind, and do as I bid you? PHILO. I can be. TRA. In the first place of all, Philematium, do you go in-doors; and you, Delphium. DEL. We'll both be obedient to you. (_They go into the house._) TRA. May Jupiter grant it so! Now then, do you give attention as to what I'd have attended to. In the first place, then, before anything, cause the house to be shut up at once. Take care and don't let any one whisper a word in-doors. PHILO. Care shall be taken. TRA. Just as though no living being were dwelling within the house. PHILO. Very well. TRA. And let no one answer, when the old gentleman knocks at the door. PHILO. Anything else? TRA. Order the master-key [4] of the house to be brought me at once from within; this house I'll lock here on the outside. PHILO. To your charge I commit myself, Tranio, and my hopes. (_He goes into the house, and the things are removed from the stage._)