MYS. (_DAVUS attempting to caress her._) Don’t touch me, villain. (_Moving away._) On my word, if I don’t {tell} Glycerium all this.... DAV. How now, simpleton, don’t you know what has been done? MYS. How should I know? DAV. This is the bride’s father. It couldn’t any other way have been managed that he should know the things that we wanted him to know. MYS. You should have told me that before. DAV. Do you suppose that it makes little difference whether you do things according to impulse, as nature prompts, or from premeditation? SCENE IX. _Enter CRITO, looking about him._ CRITO (_to himself._) It was said that Chrysis used to live in this street, who preferred to gain wealth here dishonorably to living honestly {as} a poor woman in her own country: by her death that property has descended to me by law.[86] But I see some persons of whom to make inquiry. (_Accosting them._) Good-morrow to you. MYS. Prithee, whom do I see? Isn’t this Crito, the kinsman of Chrysis? It is he. CRI. O Mysis, greetings to you. MYS. Welcome to you, Crito. CRI. Is Chrysis then----?[87] Alas! MYS. Too truly. She has indeed left us poor creatures quite heart-broken. CRI. How {fare} you here, {and} in what fashion? Pretty well? MYS. What, we? Just as we can, {as} they say; since we can’t as we would. CRI. How {is} Glycerium? Has she discovered her parents yet? MYS. I wish {she had}. CRI. What, not yet? With no favorable omen did I set out for this place; for, upon my faith, if I had known that, I never would have moved a foot hither. She was always said to be, and was looked upon as her sister; what things were hers she is in possession of; now for me to begin a suit at law here, the precedents of others warn me, a stranger,[88] how easy and profitable a task it would be for me. At the same time, I suppose that by this she has got some friend and protector; for she was pretty nearly a grown-up girl when she left there. They would cry out that I am a sharper; that, a pauper, I’m hunting after an inheritance; besides, I shouldn’t like to strip {the girl} herself. MYS. O most worthy stranger! I’faith, Crito, you still adhere to your good old-fashioned ways. CRI. Lead me to her, since I have come hither, that I may see her. MYS. By all means. (_They go into the house of GLYCERIUM._) DAV. (_to himself._) I’ll follow them; I don’t wish the old man to see me at this moment. (_He follows MYSIS and CRITO._) ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. _Enter CHREMES and SIMO from the house of SIMO._ CHREM. Enough already, enough, Simo, has my friendship toward you been proved. Sufficient hazard have I begun to encounter; make an end of your entreaties, then. While I’ve been endeavoring to oblige you, I’ve almost fooled away my daughter’s prospects in life. SIM. Nay but, now in especial, Chremes, I do beg and entreat of you, that the favor, commenced a short time since in words, you’ll now complete by deeds.