Two days to the river, i promised.
These signals warned the guards to seek shelter in their rattan baskets. He took the last chocolate out of his hat, ate it, licked his fingers, shook a few chocolate crumbs out in his hand, ate them, then stood up. At last, when many dead now lay piled one upon another in the stream, and part of the army had been destroyed at the river, and the few that escaped from thence cut off by the cavalry, nicias surrendered himself to gylippus, whom he trusted more than he did the syracusans, and told him and the lacedaemonians to do what they liked with him, but to stop the slaughter of the soldiers.
But from that evening onward, she had been careful, very aware of her surroundings while coming and going, often having an armed guard escort her to and from the atrium.