To prove it, and to win his accord, she reads the _Herakles_, the last of Euripides.
It is this long night of talk which Balaustion dictates to Euthycles as she is sailing, day after day, from Athens back to Rhodes.

The aspect of sea and sky, as they sail, is kept before us, for Balaustion uses its changes as illustrations, and the clear descriptions tell, even more fully than before, how quick this woman was to observe natural beauty and to correlate it with humanity.

Here is one example.

In order to describe a change in the temper of Aristophanes from wild license to momentary gravity, Balaustion seizes on a cloud-incident of the voyage--Euthycles, she cries, ...

"o'er the boat side, quick, what change, Watch--in the water! But a second since, It laughed a ripply spread of sun and sea, Ray fused with wave, to never disunite.
Now, sudden, all the surface hard and black, Lies a quenched light, dead motion: what the cause?
Look up, and lo, the menace of a cloud Has solemnised the sparkling, spoiled the sport! Just so, some overshadow, some new care Stopped all the mirth and mocking on his face." Her feeling for nature is as strong us her feeling for man, and both are woven together.
All her powers have now ripened, and the last touch has been given to them by her ideal sorrow for Athens, the country of her soul, where high intelligence and imagination had created worlds.