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of trouble that seemed in store for the young bride,
Her only hope was in finding the missing father.
At this moment she heard her own name softly

called. It was Chremes. ‘“ Look at me,” he said.
Sophrona. “Is that Stilpho?”
~ Chr. “No.”

Soph. “You deny it?”

Chr. “Come away ; never call me by that: name
again.”

Soph, “What? are you not what you always said
you were?”

Chr, “Hush!”

Soph, “Why do you look. at that or “What
are you afraid of ?”

Chr. “J have an angry wife inside there. I called
myself ea pEe. over at Lemnos, lest the affair should
_reach her -ears.’

’ Soph. “And so that’s the reason why we could
never find you.”

Chr. “Where are they?”

‘Soph. “Your daughter is alive: Her mother died
a-little time ago.”

Chr. ‘That is a bad job.” TP aad 3

Soph. “What was I to do?. I had nothing; no-
body knew me; I married. your daughter to the
young man who is master of the house there.”

Chr. “What? to Antipho?” -
” Soph. “Yes—his name is Antipho.”

Chr. “Has the fellow two wives, then?”