TSUMU. You have but to speak your desire to the King.
HELENA [shocked]. Tsumu! How can you think of such a thing? I'm not a
bad woman.
TSUMU. He would die for you.
HELENA [relieved]. Ah! Do you think so, Tsumu?
TSUMU. All Sparta knows that His Majesty is a lover of peace, and yet he
would rush into battle to save you.
HELENA. I should love to have men fighting for me.
TSUMU [in high alarm]. May Zeus turn a deaf ear to your voice.
HELENA. Don't be impertinent, Tsumu. I've got to have some sort of
amusement.
TSUMU. You've only to wait till next week, and you can see another of
the priestesses sacrificed to Diana.
HELENA. That doesn't interest me any longer. The girls are positively
beginning to like it. No! My mind is set on war.
TSUMU [terrified]. I have five fathers of my children to lose.