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ARIADNE. 133beauty against the granite columns of Agrippa'stemple." Is she inRome 1" he asked." Iwdl not tell you."" Then she is! WhenIlearned inParis thatyou had found her,Iknew that she was safe.You thoughtIdrove her away. You dome wrong.Ileft herindeed — butIwoulclhave returned.Iwrote to her to try and make her see that onemight weary, still not be a brute;how couldItell that she would take it so? My servantsshould have sought her,,they might have knownthatIhad nointention to drive her fromme; notlike that. WhenIreached Paris,thenIsoughtfor her,but then you had been there, and hadgone;Irecognised that it was you by whatthey said, — you had found her in wretchednessi" She kept herself by making fishermen's nets—yes." ijIwould not tell him all the truth;Icouldnotbear that he should know that her lovely andlofty mind had lost itself in the fell gloom ofmadness for his sake.