Helena [very simply]. Well, I should like to have a lover.
Tsumu [springs up and rushes over in horror to draw the curtains across the door of the library. All of a tremble]. Gods grant they didn't hear you.
Helena. Don't be alarmed, Tsumu. Analytikos is over eighty.
[She bursts into a loud peal of laughter and Menelaus rushes into the room.]
Menelaus [in high irritation]. I wish you wouldn't make so much noise in here. A King might at least expect quiet in his own palace.
Helena. Tsumu, see if my bath is ready. [Tsumu exits.] You used not speak like that to me, Moo Moo.
Menelaus [in a temper]. How many times must I tell you that my name is Menelaus and that it isn't "Moo Moo"?
Helena [sweetly]. I'll never do it again, Moo Moo. [She giggles.]
Menelaus. Your laugh gets on my nerves. It's louder than it used to be.
Helena. If you wish it, I'll never, never laugh again.