As yet he seems but a helpless bride-groom.

He left this one to die, and dead she is to him.

I saved her alive, and alive she is to me, but to no one else.

Ungrateful man! have I not saved your land, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and will you requite me thus?
Go, or it will be worse for you.' But all the men-at-arms drew their swords, and rushed on him like wild beasts.
Then he unveiled the Gorgon's head, and said, 'This has delivered my bride from one wild beast: it shall deliver her from many.' And as he spoke Phineus and all his men-at-arms stopped short, and stiffened each man as he stood; and before Perseus had drawn the goat-skin over the face again, they were all turned into stone.
Then Persons bade the people bring levers and roll them out; and what was done with them after that I cannot tell.
So they made a great wedding-feast, which lasted seven whole days, and who so happy as Perseus and Andromeda?
But on the eighth night Perseus dreamed a dream; and he saw standing beside him Pallas Athene, as he had seen her in Seriphos, seven long years before; and she stood and called him by name, and said-- 'Perseus, you have played the man, and see, you have your reward.

Know now that the Gods are just, and help him who helps himself.