Aphrodite.
Unfortunately, even here, immortality was no convenient prelude to our present state. We did not, indeed, neglect the heart——
Ares.
If I forget all else, there must be events——
Aphrodite.
Alas! we loved so briefly and with so facile a susceptibility, that I am tempted to ask myself whether in Olympus we really loved at all.
Ares [with ardour].
There, at least, memory supplies me with no sort of doubt——
Aphrodite [coldly].