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 well 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. [Helen resents this.] Their beauty is forever speaking for them.
Helena. The years have, indeed, taught you wisdom.
[Tsumu enters.]
Tsumu. The almond water awaits your majesty.