Yet I feel that they threaten us with sore tribulation.

But, after all, what harm can they do us, if we only keep close together, we two old people and the children of the children whom Hades rent from us?
We need only to grow old to perceive that life has a head with many faces.

The ugly one of to-day can last no longer than you can keep that deeply furrowed brow.

But you need not coerce yourself for my sake, husband.

Let it be so.