But she would not raise her eyes, standing there in the rose lamplight, the perverse smile still edging her lips.
"Calypso," he repeated persuasively.
"No.... Besides, I have nothing to offer you, Ulysses.... You remember what the real Calypso offered the real Ulysses if he'd remain with her in Ogygia?"
"Eternal youth and love?" He bent over the table, moving his hand to cover hers where it rested in the lamplight. "You have given me eternity in love already," he said.
"Have I?" But she would not lift her eyes.... "Then why make love to me if you have it ready-made for you?"
"Will you come?"
And she, quoting the Odyssey again:
"Swear, then, thou mean'st not what my soul forebodes;
Swear by the solemn oath that binds the gods!"
And in turn he quoted:
"Loved and adored, O goddess as thou art,
Forgive the weakness of a human heart."