How? Tell me.HelenTo whom Kypris had promised me.MenelaosO unhappy one!HelenUnhappy, unhappy; and so she brought me to Egypt.MenelaosThen she gave him a phantom instead, as I hear from you.HelenSorrow, sorrow to your house,mother, alas.MenelaosWhat do you mean?HelenMy mother is no more; through shame of my disgraceful marriage she tied a noose around her neck.MenelaosAlas! Is our daughter Hermione alive?HelenAh, my husband! Unmarried, and without children, she mourns myfatal marriage.MenelaosO Paris, who utterly destroyed my whole house, these things ruined you also, and countless bronze-clad Danaans.HelenThe god cast me out, ill-fated and accursed, from my country,from my city, and from you, when I left my home and bed—yet I did not leave them—for a shameful marriage.