What do you mean? What will you say? Ah, my wife, you have ruined me.HelenEscape from this land and flee as quickly as possible. The man who lives in this house will kill you.MenelaosWhat have I done to deserve such a fate?HelenYou have come unexpectedly to hinder my marriage.MenelaosWhat! Does someone plan to marry my wife?HelenAnd to act in violence against me, which I have endured.MenelaosDoes he have private power, or is he the ruler of the country?HelenHe is the lord of this land, the son of Proteus.MenelaosThis is that riddle I heard from the servant.HelenWhich one of the barbarian’s gates were you standing beside?MenelaosThis one, from which I was being driven away like a beggar.HelenYou were surely not begging for food, were you? How unhappy I am!MenelaosThat was the deed, though it did not have that name.HelenThen you know everything, it seems, about my marriage.MenelaosI do. But if you have escaped his bed—that I do not know.