Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
For the present, at least, as it seems; but have you any thing else to say? for I have some business that obliges me to go at once to the Forum.
LACHES
I’ll go with you. (Exeunt.)
[Textpart 3]
Upon my faith, we assuredly are all of us hated by our husbands with equal injustice,
SOSTRATA
on account of a few, who cause us all to appear deserving of harsh treatment. For, so may. the Gods prosper me, as to what my husband accuses me of, I am quite guiltless. But it is not so easy to clear myself, so strongly have people come to the conclusion that all step-mothers are harsh: i’ faith, not I, indeed, for I never regarded her otherwise than if she had been my own daughter; nor can I conceive how this has befallen me.
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But really, for many reasons, I long for my son’s return home with impatience. (Goes into her house.)
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