Selene shook her head.
"You are not happy?"
"No."
"I know full well that you have very heavy duties to perform for your age."
"Things go as they may."
"Nay, nay. I know you do not let things go haphazard. You take care of your brothers and sisters like a mother."
"Like a mother!" repeated Selene, and she smiled a bitter negative.
"Of course a mother's love is a thing by itself, but your father and the little ones have every reason to be satisfied with yours."
"The little ones are perhaps, and Helios who is blind, but Arsinoe does what she can."
"You certainly are not content, I can hear it in your voice, and you used formerly to be as merry and happy as your sister, though perhaps not so saucy."