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Ah wretched me!
DINARCHUS
my doings are now being disclosed, which I hoped would be concealed.
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CALLICLES
Speak, you. Who bade you give the child to her?
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.
My elder mistress.
CALLICLES
What say you? Why did you receive it?
SYRA
My young mistress entreated me that the child might be brought, and that all this might remain secret.
CALLICLES
Speak, you. What did you do with this child?
SYRA
I took it to my mistress.
CALLICLES
What did your mistress do with this child?
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SYRA
Gave it at once to my mistress.
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CALLICLES
Plague on it, to what mistress?
A MAID-SERVANT of Callicles.
There are two of them.
CALLICLES
Take you care, unless I ask you anything, only to answer that which I ask of you.
SYRA
The mother, I say, made a present of it to the daughter.
CALLICLES
You are saying more than you did just now.
SYRA
You are asking more.
CALLICLES
Answer me quickly; what did she do, to whom it was given? Tell me.
SYRA
She passed it off as—
