This seemed the easier course and she adopted it at once; she went up to her sister quickly, but not quite unconcernedly, and said with mock gravity: "Look here, Klea, don't you notice anything in me?
I must look like a crocodile that has eaten a whole hippopotamus, or one of the sacred snakes after it has swallowed a rabbit.

Only think when I had eaten my own bread I found yours between my teeth--quite unexpectedly--but now--" Klea, thus addressed, glanced at the empty platter and interrupted her sister with a low-toned exclamation.

"Oh! I was so hungry." The words expressed no reproof, only utter exhaustion, and as the young criminal looked at her sister and saw her sitting there, tired and worn out but submitting to the injury that had been done her without a word of complaint, her heart, easily touched, was filled with compunction and regret.

She burst into tears and threw herself on the ground before her, clasping her knees and crying, in a voice broken with sobs: "Oh Klea! poor, dear Klea, what have I done! but indeed I did not mean any harm.

I don't know how it happened.