AMPH.Is it thus you wish to try to make amends for the welcome of which I complain?
ALC.Do you desire to try to amuse yourself by this feint?
AMPH.For Heaven's, sake, I beseech you, Alcmene! Let us cease this, and talk seriously.
ALC.You carry your amusement too far, Amphitryon: let there be an end to this raillery.
AMPH.Do you really dare maintain to my face that I was seen here before this hour?
ALC.Have you really the assurance to deny that you came here early yesterday evening?
AMPH.I! I came yesterday?
ALC.Certainly; and you went away again before dawn.
AMPH.Heavens! Was ever such a debate as this heard before? Who would not be astonished at all this? Sosie?
SOS.She needs six grains of hellebore, Monsieur; her brain is turned.
AMPH.Alcmene, in the name of all the Gods, this discourse will have a strange ending! Recollect your senses a little better, and think what you say.
ALC.I am indeed thinking seriously; all in the house saw your arrival.I am ignorant what motive makes you act thus; but, if the thing were in need of proof, if it were true that such a thing could be forgotten, from whom, but from you, could I have heard the news of the latest of all your battles, and of the five diamonds worn by Pterelas, who was plunged into eternal night by the strength of your arm? Could one wish for surer testimony?
AMPH.What? I have already given you the cluster of diamonds which Ihad for my share, and intended for you?