THEU. I don't think _he will_. Each man reaps on his own farm [9]. If it had been bought dear, we shouldn't have had permission to return it on his hands. Whatever profit there is, it's proper to bring it home. It don't, now-a-days, befit men to be showing compassion. TRA. I' faith, you are losing time while you are talking. Follow _me_. THEU. Be it so. TRA. (_to_ THEUROPIDES). I'll give you my services. (_Pointing._) There's the old gentleman. (_To_ SIMO.) Well now, I've brought you _this_ person. SIM. I'm glad that you've arrived safely from abroad, Theuropides. THEU. May the Gods bless you. SIM. Your servant was telling me that you were desirous to look over this house. THEU. Unless it's inconvenient to you. SIM. Oh no; _quite_ convenient. Do step in-doors and look over it. THEU. (_pausing_). But yet--the ladies-- SIM. Take you care not to trouble yourself a straw about any lady. Walk in every direction, wherever you like, all over the house, just as though it were your own. THEU. (_apart to_ TRANIO). "Just as though--?" TRA. (_whispering_). Oh, take care that you don't throw it in his teeth now in his concern, that you have bought it. Don't you see him, how sad a countenance the old gentleman has? THEU. (_apart_). I see. TRA. (_apart_). Then don't seem to exult, and to be overmuch delighted; _in fact_, don't make mention that you've bought it. THEU. (_apart_). I understand; and I think you've given good advice, and that it shows a humane disposition. (_Turning to_ SIMO.) What now? SIM. Won't you go in? Look over it at your leisure, just as you like. THEU. I consider that you are acting civilly and kindly. SIM. Troth, I wish to do so. Should you like some one to show you over. THEU. Away with any one to show [10] me over. I don't want him. SIM. Why? What's the matter? THEU. I'll go wrong, rather than any one should show me over. TRA. (_pointing_). Don't you see, this vestibule before the house, and the piazza, of what a compass it is? THEU. Troth, really handsome! TRA. Well, look _now_, what pillars there are, with what strength they are built, and of what a thickness. THEU. I don't think that I _ever_ saw handsomer pillars. SIM. I' faith, they were some time since bought by me at such a price! TRA. (_aside, whispering_). Don't you hear--"They were _once"?_ He seems hardly able to refrain from tears. THEU. At what price did you purchase them? SIM. I gave three minae for the two, besides the carriage. (_He retires to some distance._) THEU. (_after looking close at them, to_ TRANIO). Why, upon my word, they are much more unsound than I thought them at first. TRA. Why so? THEU. Because, i' faith, the woodworm has split them both from the bottom. TRA. I think they were cut at an improper season; that fault damages them; but even as it is, they are quite good enough, if they are covered with pitch. But it was no foreign pulse-eating artisan [11] did this work. Don't you see the joints in the door? (_Pointing._)