Midday
Lygia seemed to her not only as beautiful as a beautiful vision , but also very dear , and , putting her lips to her dark hair , she kissed it . But Lygia slept on calmly , as if at home , under the care of Pomponia Græcina . And she slept rather long . Midday had passed when she opened her blue eyes and looked around the cubiculum in astonishment . Evidently she wondered that she was not in the house of Aulus . `` That is thou , Acte ? '' said she at last , seeing in the darkness the face of the Greek .