340 APOLLODORUS.

“Have you paid the money?” he asked his
- brother.

Dem. “Yes, I have.”

Chr. “I wish that you had not. Ah! there is

Nausistrata.”

Dem. “ But why not?”

Chr. “It’s all right.”

Dem. “How about the girl?”

Chr. “She can’t be sentaway. The young people
love each other too much.”

Dem. “But what does that matter to us?”

Chr. “Very much. She is a relative, after all.
There was a mistake about the father’s name.”

Dem. “What? she did not know her own father?”

Chr. “Oh! she knew it.”

Dem. “Then why did she say something else? rs
Chr. “Don’t you understand? You are ruining
me.” .

Nausistrata, “What is it all about?”

Dem. “Tam sure I don’t know.”

Chr. “If you must know, as I am alive, she has
no nearer relatives than you and me.”

Dem. “Good heavens! Let us go and see her.
We all ought to know whether this is true or not.”

Chr. “Stop! stop!”

Dem. “Well, what is to be done about our friend’s
daughter?” !

1 By “our friend’s daughter,” Chremes’s own daughter is meant.
Nausistrata was not to know who was meant. .