xana and all the
dressing-up."

"Because you are not yet quite awake," laughed the steward. "How did
this ivy-leaf get into your hair?" Arsinoe colored, put her hand to the
spot indicated by her father, and said reluctantly:

"Out of some bough or another, but now go that I may get up."

"In a minute--tell me how did you find Selene?"

"Not so very bad--but I will tell you all about that afterwards. Now I
want to be alone."

When, half an hour later, Arsinoe brought her father his porridge he
gazed at the child in astonishment. Some extraordinary change seemed
to have come over his daughter. Something shone in her eyes that he
had never observed before, and that gave her childlike features an
importance and significance that almost startled him. While she was
making the porridge, Keraunus, with the slave's help, had taken the
children up and dressed them; now they were all sitting at breakfast;
Helios among them fresh and blooming. Now, while Arsinoe told her father
all about Selene, and the nursing she was having at dame Hannah's hands,
Keraunus kept his eyes fixed on her, and when she noticed this and asked
impatiently what there was peculiar in her appearance to-day, he shook
his head and answered:

"What strange things are girls! A great honor has been done you. You are
to represent the bride of Alexander, and pride and delight have changed
you wonder fully in a single night--but I think to your disadvantage."

"Folly," said Arsinoe reddening, and stretching herself with fatigue she
threw herself back on a couch. She did not feel weary exactly, for the
lassitude she felt in every limb had a peculiar pleasure in it. She felt
as if she had come out of a hot bath, and since her father had roused
her she seemed to hear, again and again, the sound of the inspiriting
music which she had followed arm in arm with Pollux. Now and again she
smiled, now and again she gazed straight before her, and at the same
time she said to herself that if at this very moment her lover were to
ask her, she would not lack strength to fling herself at once, with him,
once more into the mad whirl. Yes--she felt perfectly fresh! only her
eyes burned a little; and if Keraunus fancied he saw anything new in
his daughter it must be the glowing light which now lurked in them along
with the playful sparkle he had always seen there.

When breakfast was over the slave took the children out, and Arsinoe had
begun to curl her father's hair, when