Aphrodite [aside to Pallas].
If we must be driven forth again, let us at least cling to such new gifts as we have secured here.
Pallas [in an eager whisper].
I should like to know what you consider them to be. Do you hold introspection as one of them?
Aphrodite.
I certainly do. The analysis of one's own feelings, and the sense of watching the fluctuating symptoms of one's individuality, form one of the principal consolations of our mortal state.
Pallas.
I think I should give it another name.
Hermes [who has come up behind them, and bending forward has overheard the conversation].