oh, yes, my life is so wondrously fine.ChrysothemisIt would be, if only you learned good sense.ElectraDo not teach me to betray my friends.ChrysothemisI do not, but to bend before the strong.ElectraKeep your flattery to yourself; it is not in my character.ChrysothemisRegardless, it brings no honor to fall through senselessness.ElectraI will fall, if need be, while honoring my father.ChrysothemisBut our father, I know, pardons me for this.ElectraIt is for cowards to commend such sentiments.ChrysothemisSo you will not be persuaded to agree with me?ElectraNo, indeed; may I not yet be so devoid of intelligence.ChrysothemisThen I will move on to where I was sent.ElectraAnd where is it that you go? For whom do you take these offerings to be burned?ChrysothemisMother sends me with funeral libations for our father.ElectraWhat are you saying? For her deadliest enemy?ChrysothemisWhom she herself killed, no doubt you wanted to say this as well.ElectraWhat friend persuaded her? Whose idea was it?ChrysothemisThe cause, I think, was fear induced by some vision in the night.ElectraMy father’s Gods! Stand with me now at last!ChrysothemisDo you find something heartening in this terror?