She listened for a short time to the voices and laughter which retreated in the direction of the laconicum. At last she took the stool inlaid with amber and ivory, on which Petronius had been sitting a short time before, and put it carefully at his statue.
Egy ideig még hallgatta a laconicum felé távolodó lépések és kacagás zaját, végül felemelte a borostyánkővel és elefántcsonttal kirakott széket, amelyen az imént Petronius ült, s óvatosan a férfi szobra elé tolta.