Chapter 28 - 29 Summary

In Chapter 28, Melissa and Chloe are returned to their villa, one month after they have left. Chloe has lost weight and is pale; Melissa is in ill-health. Robina orders them up to the cabin, because a slave quarters is no place for a sick woman. News comes of a terrible fever in Rome, and Laevinus is returning to the villa to escape it, for his whole family has died. Chloe comes upon Laevinus coming up the mountain. Chloe confronts him, angry at his having caused her mother's death. But Laevinus says that Davus has lied about the past. Chloe confesses to Laevinus that she is his daughter. Leavinus explains that he sent his brother to save Chloe and her mother, and Laevinus's father sent Davus to expose the scandal of a child between a slave and a master. Laevinus promises to...