Eros.
Are you proceeding to set our Father Zeus on fire, or do you intend to repeat on our unwilling Heracles the rites of canonisation? Have a care with those absurd
flambeaux; you will put all the underwood aflame. What are you doing with torches?
Amphitrite.
It was Hephæstus who gave them to us to hold. He is in a cave down there by the sea, making the most ingenious things in the darkness. He called us in to hold these lights——
Doris.
And oh, Eros, we had such fun, teasing him——
Pitho.
He was quite angry at last——
Amphitrite.