She, for some reason, would not hear
of marrying him. In fact, Furfur, it seems, was the only bachelor
hereabouts whom she was unwilling to marry. She flouted him, derided him,
and finally forbade him her house and ordered him never to dare to
approach her. He kept away, sulky and morose and low-spirited.
"After that episode she had a go at Muso, the only other bachelor among us
seven.
"Finally she fastened on Marcus Martius, who is not quite as rich as Muso,
but yet comfortably well off. She married him day before yesterday."
"Thanks be to Hercules," Tanno cried, "that I have never set eyes on the
jade. I'm for matrimony only with an heiress of my own class and only with
such an heiress as I personally fancy. No matrimony for me otherwise."
With this the party broke up. We all went out on the terrace. My six
neighbors mounted and cantered off on their various roads home; Tanno,
Hirnio and I went in and to bed.
CHAPTER V
ENCOUNTERS
Next morning I was wakened by a dash of cold water over me and sat up in
bed dripping and angry. Tanno was bending over me.
"I had to souse you," he explained. "I've been shaking you and yelling at
you and you stayed as fast asleep as before I touched you.
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