CHÆ. Was I to let slip the opportunity offered me, so excellent, so short-lived,[86] so longed for, so unexpected. In that case, i’faith, I really should have been the person I was pretending to be. ANT. Troth, you certainly are in the right; but, meantime, what has been arranged about the club-entertainment? CHÆ. All’s ready. ANT. You are a clever band; but where? At your house? CHÆ. No, at Discus’s, our freedman. ANT. That’s a long way off. CHÆ. Then let’s make so much the greater haste. ANT. Change your dress. CHÆ. Where am I to change it? I’m at a loss; for at present I’m an exile from home; I’m afraid of my brother, lest he should be in-doors: and then again of my father, lest he should have returned from the country by this. ANT. Let’s go to my house; there is the nearest place for you to change. CHÆ. You say right. Let’s be off; besides, I want to take counsel with you about this girl, by what means I may be able to secure the future possession of her. ANT. Very well. (_Exeunt._ ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. _Enter DORIAS, with a casket in her hand._ DORIAS (_to herself._) So may the Gods bless me, but from what I have seen, I’m terribly afraid that this mad fellow will be guilty of some disturbance to-day or of some violence to Thais. For when this young man, the brother of the damsel, arrived, she begged the Captain to order him to be admitted; he immediately began to get into a passion, and yet didn’t dare refuse; Thais still insisted that he would invite the man in. This she did for the sake of detaining him; because there was no opportunity {just then} of telling him what she wanted to disclose about her sister. He was invited in, and took his seat. Then she entered into discourse with him. But the Captain, fancying it was a rival brought before his {very} eyes, wanted in his turn to mortify her: “Hark you, boy,” said he, “go fetch Pamphila, that she may amuse us here.” She exclaimed, “At a banquet! Certainly not.” The Captain still persisted to a downright quarrel. Meanwhile my mistress secretly took off her golden {jewels},[87] and gave them to me to take away: this is a sign, I’m sure, that she’ll betake herself from there as soon as she possibly can. (_Goes into the house._) SCENE II. _Enter PHÆDRIA._