The wonder is that you have got here at last! Eunoe, come and see that she has a chair and put a cushion on it!" G."It does most charmingly as it is." P."Do sit down." How natural this is.

There is nothing Greek about it any more than there is Japanese; it is simply human.

It is something that happens in Tokyo every day, certainly in houses where there are chairs and where it is a custom to put a cushion on the chair for the visitor.

But remember, this was two thousand years ago.

Now listen to what the visitor has to say.
"I have scarcely got to you at all, Praxinoe! What a huge crowd, what hosts of carriages! Everywhere cavalry boots, everywhere men in uniform! And the road is endless; yes, you really live too far away!" Praxinoe answers: "It is all for that mad man of mine.