What now are you about to do? Do tell me that.CHRYSALUS Let a breakfast be prepared; there will be you two, and your mistress will make a third with you.MNESILOCHUS Just as you say. CHRYSALUS Pistoclerus has no mistress?MNESILOCHUS O yes, she’s here; he’s in love with the one sister, I with the other, both of the name of Bacchis.CHRYSALUS What were you going to say?MNESILOCHUS This; how we are to manageAre to manage: Mnesilochus is probably going to ask how they are about to arrange, when he is interrupted by Chrysalus, who then asks him what he was going to say, on which he answers that he was going to observe how many there would be at the entertainment..CHRYSALUS Where are your couchesYour couches: Biclinium is supposed to mean either a snug room fitted up with only two lecti, or couches for reclining at meals, or else, perhaps with more probability, a couch formed for holding two guests, instead of three, as the common triclinium did. It is not unlikely that the use of these was especially adopted in houses of the character of that kept by Bacchis. laid out? MNESILOCHUS Why o you ask that?CHRYSALUS So the matter stands; I wish to be informed. You know not what I am about to do, nor what a great exploit I shall attempt.MINES. Give me your hand, and follow me close, to the door. Peep in.(CHRYSALUS looks in at the door of the house of BACCHIS.)CHRYSALUS Hurra! ’Tis a very pretty place, this, and exactly as I could wish it to be.