SAN. My thoughts have been for some time among the sauce-pans. GNA. You are a worthy fellow. THRA. (_putting himself at their head._) You follow me this way. (_Exeunt omnes._ ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. _Enter THAIS from her house, followed by PYTHIAS._ THAIS. What! do you persist, hussy, in talking ambiguously to me? “I do know;” “I don’t know;” “he has gone off;” “I have heard;” “I wasn’t there.” Don’t you mean to tell me plainly, whatever it is? The girl in tears, with her garments torn, is mute; the Eunuch is off: for what reason? What has happened? Won’t you speak? PYTH. Wretch that I am, what am I to say to you? They declare that he was not a Eunuch. THAIS. What was he then? PYTH. That Chærea. THAIS. What Chærea? PYTH. That stripling, the brother of Phædria. THAIS. What’s that you say, you hag? PYTH. And I am satisfied of it. THAIS. Pray, what business had he at my house? What brought him there? PYTH. I don’t know; unless, as I suppose, he was in love with Pamphila. THAIS. Alas! to my confusion, unhappy woman that I am, I’m undone, if what you tell me is true. Is it about this that the girl is crying? PYTH. I believe so. THAIS. How say you, you arch-jade? Did I not warn you about this very thing, when I was going away from here? PYTH. What could I do? Just as you ordered, she was intrusted to his care only. THAIS. Hussy, I’ve been intrusting the sheep to the wolf. I’m quite ashamed to have been imposed upon in this way. What sort of man was he? PYTH. Hush! hush! mistress, pray; we are all right. Here we have the very man. THAIS. Where is he? PYTH. Why there, to the left. Don’t you see? THAIS. I see. PYTH. Order him to be seized as quickly as possible. THAIS. What can we do to him, simpleton? PYTH. What do to him, do you ask? Pray, do look at him; if his face doesn’t seem an impudent one. THAIS. Not at all. PYTH. Besides, what effrontery he has. SCENE II. _Enter CHÆREA, in the EUNUCH’S dress, on the other side of the stage._ CHÆ. (_to himself._) At Antipho’s,[102] both of them, father and mother, just as if on purpose, were at home, so that I couldn’t any way get in, but that they must have seen me. In the mean time, while I was standing before the door, a certain acquaintance {of mine} was coming full upon me. When I espied him, I took to my heels as fast as I could down a narrow unfrequented alley; thence again to another, {and} thence to another; thus have I been most dreadfully harassed with running about, that no one might recognize me. But isn’t this Thais that I see? It is she. I’m at a stand. What shall I do? But what need I care? What can she do to me? THAIS, (_to PYTHIAS._) Let’s accost him. (_To CHÆREA._) Good Mister Dorus, welcome; tell me, have you been running away? CHÆ. Madam, I did so. THAIS. Are you quite pleased with it? CHÆ. No. THAIS. Do you fancy that you’ll get off with impunity? CHÆ. Forgive this one fault; if I’m ever guilty of another, {then} kill me.