'Tis well said, Alcimedon! These women and priests!

Priest.

Nay, but I will speak!

[Talks to Pyrrhus, round whom a group gathers, leaving Andromache alone, and Orestes near Alcimedon.

Orestes.

[Apart to Alcimedon.] Old man, you have seen Helen. Was she more beautiful than your Queen?

Alcimus.

[Looking towards Hermione, then brightening.] Nay, this is a woman like another; Helen was goddesslike, deathless and ageless for ever!

Orestes.