You are the master of what other wife?MenelaosThe one hidden in the cave, whom I am bringing from Troy.HelenYou have no other wife but me.MenelaosCan it be that I am in my right mind, but my sight is failing?HelenDon’t you think that when you look at me you see your wife?MenelaosYour body resembles hers, but the real truth robs me of this belief.HelenLook; what more do you need? Who knows better than you?MenelaosYou are like her; I will not deny that at least.HelenWho then shall teach you, if not your own eyes?MenelaosIt is there that I am ailing, because I have another wife.HelenI did not go to Troy; that was a phantom.MenelaosAnd who fashions living bodies?HelenThe air, out of which you have a wife that the gods labored over.MenelaosWhat god’s handiwork? You are saying things beyond hope.HelenHera’s, as a substitute, so that Paris would not have me.MenelaosHow then could you be here and in Troy at the same time?HelenThe name may be in many places, though not the body.MenelaosLet me go! I have come here with enough pain.HelenWill you leave me, and take that phantom bride away?MenelaosYes, and fare well, for your likeness to Helen.