MENELAUS [fuming]. Well! Have you done?
HELENA. No. I could say a great deal more, but I'm not a talkative woman.
[ANALYTIKOS comes in from the library.]
ANALYTIKOS. Your Majesty, are we to read no longer to-day?
HELENA. I have something to say to the King. [ANALYTIKOS goes toward the library. MENELAUS anxiously stops him.]
MENELAUS. No. Stay here. You are a wise man and will understand the wisdom of the Queen.
ANALYTIKOS [bowing to HELENA]. Helena is wise as she is beautiful.
MENELAUS. She is attempting to prove to me in a thousand words that she's a silent woman.
ANALYTIKOS. Women are seldom silent. [HELENA resents this.] Their beauty is forever speaking for them.
HELENA. The years have, indeed, taught you wisdom. [TSUMU enters.]