“Nay. Though I lost hope when I believed Æole had passed away. How I prayed to go to her.”
“Hadst thou no thought for me—for my double sorrow?”
“Hellen, I did think of thee. I knew thou wouldst sorrow much. But further, I knew it would not be for long. Thou wouldst have come to us. And what joy to be in the other life together!”
“Had I thy hope.”
“Now shouldst thou have it if ever.”
“It cometh. Electra, hearken. I hug to myself that which even Æole knoweth not. Who, thinkest thou, is the ‘Silent Priest’?”
“One sent of the gods.”
“But who—what person is he?”
She looked at him keenly, and noted his excitement.—“Thou meanest not—that he cometh from Pelasgia?”
“But I do—he cometh from there.”