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Updated: June 16, 2025
Only under those circumstances could they be reasonably sure of the conditions remaining unaltered until the transit was accomplished. In practice about sixty-five nights in a year promised well for traffic. With sea transit so restricted, communication with Britain was infrequent, and news of Almo irregular. Besides his letters to Flexinna he wrote occasionally to Vocco.
"You're in love with Vocco and you know you wouldn't even think of giving him up if you had the chance." "Just wouldn't I!" Flexinna retorted. "I love Quintus dearly. But if I had a ch-ch-chance to be a V-V-Vestal, I'd fling poor Quintus hard and never regret him. Not I. Think of the influence a V-V-Vestal has!
In the Atrium she had to conceal her inward convulsions of rage, had to appear calm, placid and collected. The effort made her the more explosive when she was at Flexinna's and could speak out. She stormed. Flexinna let her talk herself hoarse. But no amount of talking relieved her.
"Numisia," he explained, "saw you go out in Flexinna's clothes and recognized you. She entered your room and talked with Flexinna. She summoned me and we conferred. We both loved you and we both believed in you. We were solicitous for the cult, but we were nearly as much solicitous for you.
Flexinna remonstrated, "you t-t-talk like a raving maniac! You look like a F-F-Fury!" "I'm furious enough!" Brinnaria snarled, "and I've plenty of good cause for being angry. Was ever woman on earth put in a position so invidious, so embarrassing? Everybody knew of my rescue of the retiarius, thousands had seen me rescue him.
Of the daily deaths among their large acquaintance or among the nobilities of the city, they talked calmly, without any feeling of gloom or of dread, secure in the confidence of youth and health. On the tenth day after Brinnaria had been left to her own devices Flexinna visited her as usual. Early in their talk she said: "D-D-Dossonia died last night." "The Chief Vestal?" Brinnaria queried.
"Then they fight at midnight to-night," Brinnaria deduced. "Yes," Flexinna corroborated. "How did you come here?" her friend queried. "In Nemestronia's litter," the visitor answered. "I b-b-borrowed it." "With her Cappadocian bearers?" queried Brinnaria. "Eighteen, of them," said Flexinna; "two extras." "How on earth did you come to do that?" Brinnaria wondered.
Their influx sent up the price of large residences and caused much activity in the renting and selling of properties suitable for the homes of people of ample means. Brinnaria, without a male relation of even the remotest degree, came to lean more and more on Vocco, the husband of her chum Flexinna.
Brinnaria found herself very much in a quandary, and discussions with Flexinna and Vocco, however lengthy and however often repeated, left her just where she started. They could not decide whether it was best to do nothing or to interfere, and whether, if they were to interfere, what form their intervention should take.
I have talked with Lutorius and Causidiena and Numisia. They feel towards you as my Father felt. They believe in you and in your worthiness as a priestess, and they minimize your irregularities. I sent for Flexinna and talked with her. She deserves consideration, if only because she is the mother of the largest family to be found among our nobility, even among our gentry.
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