-keeper's worthy wife. Just at that time Selene also
left the city, and now Arsinoe's longing for her old friends grew to a
passionate craving to see them again.

One day she yielded to the promptings of her heart and slipped out into
the street to seek Doris; but the door-keeper, who had been charged by
Paulina never to allow her to go outside the door without his mistress's
express permission, noticed her and brought her back to her
protectress--not this time only, but, on several subsequent occasions
when she attempted to escape.

It was not merely her longing to talk about Pollux which made her new
home unendurable to Arsinoe, but many other reasons besides. She felt
like a prisoner; and in fact she was one, for after each attempt at
flight her freedom of movement was still farther impeded. It is true that
she had soon ceased to submit patiently to all that was required of her
and even had often opposed her adoptive mother with vehement words, tears
and execrations, but these unpleasant scenes, which always ended by a
declaration on Paulina's part that she forgave the girl, had always
resulted in a long break in her drives and in a variety of small
annoyances. Arsinoe was beginning to hate her benefactress and everything
that surrounded her, and the hours of catechising and of prayer, which
she could not escape, were a positive martyrdom. Ere long the doctrine to
which Paulina sought to win her was confounded in her mind with that
which it was intended to drive out, and she defiantly shut her heart
against it.

Bishop Eumenes, who had been elected in the spring Patriarch of the
Christians of Alexandria, visited her oftener than usual during the
summer when Paulina lived in her suburban villa. Paulina, it is true, had
fancied she could do without his help, and that she could and must carry
her task through to the end by herself; but the worthy old man had felt
sympathetically drawn to the poor ill-guided child, and sought to soothe
and calm her mind and show her the goal, towards which Paulina desired to
lead her, in all its beauty. After such discourses Arsinoe would be
softened and felt inclined to believe in God and to love Christ, but no
sooner had her protectress called her again into the school-room and put
the very same things before her in her own way than the girl's
heartstrings drew close again; and when she was desired to pray she
raised her hands, indeed, but out of sheer defiance, she prayed in spirit