Old Man: All witnesses remove.
Andromache: What if the foe inquire?
Old Man: Then answer thus:
"He perished in the city's overthrow."
This cause alone ere now hath safety found
For many from the stroke of death—belief
That they have died.
Andromache: But scanty hope is left;
Too huge a weight of race doth press him down.
Besides, what can it profit him to hide495