Tra monologue — The Captivi and the Mostellaria

(_apart_). Now, faith, I am clearly undone in an everlasting way! The Banker's here who found the money with which his mistress was bought. The matter's all out, unless I meet him a bit beforehand, so that the old man may not at present come to know of this. I'll go meet him. But (_seeing_ THEUROPIDES) I wonder why he has so soon betaken himself homeward _again_. I'm afraid that he has heard something about this affair. I'll meet him, and accost him. But how dreadfully frightened I am! Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man with a _guilty_ conscience, such as possesses myself. But however this matter turns out, I'll proceed to perplex it still further: so does this affair require.