She raised her delicate face toward the evening light, and said with simplicity,—"Not Nero, but God, rules the world."
A moment of silence followed. Near the triclinium were heard in the alley, the steps of the old general, Vinicius, Lygia, and little Aulus; but before they arrived, Petronius had put another question—"But believest thou in the gods, then, Pomponia?"
"I believe in God, who is one, just, and allpowerful," answered the wife of Aulus Plautius.