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The annual week of the Passover would begin tomorrow; and Antipas, who had always anticipated its games, processions and ceremonies with pleasure, was troubled by its arrival. His Roman house-guests at the Embassy, already bored to forthright rudeness toward their host, would find it a dull affair.
He now realized that it had been a mistake to invite so many of them. He might have managed comfortably with two or three, but-- ignoring the warning of Herodias, who was not particularly chummy with any of the women of the party--he had brought fifteen!