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For , on the same day that Belisarius goes into exile , I go too . Then see to it , who will guard your doors from the Goths , Persians , and Saracens . ' And the Emperor hesitated , and demanded three days ' time for consideration , and meanwhile Narses was to be allowed to look through the papers in company with me , and to speak to Anicius and all concerned . I soon perceived from the papers that the worst proof against Belisarius -- for I hoped to be able to explain away the consent which he had written upon the tablet found in the house of Photius -- was the secret and midnight visits of Anicius , which Belisarius , Antonina , and Anicius himself , obstinately and unreasonably denied . I then spoke to Antonina in private . I told her that these visits and their denial would be the ruin of Belisarius . Then she cried with sparkling eyes : ` Then I alone will be ruined , and Belisarius shall be saved !