Village books

Ulysses now has supper and remains with Alcinous and Arete
after the other guests are gone away for the night. So the three
sit by the fire while the servants take away the things, and Arete
is the first to speak. She has been uneasy for some time about
Ulysses' clothes, which she recognized as her own make, and at last
she says, "Stranger, there is a question or two that I should like
to put to you myself. Who in the world are you? And who gave you
those clothes? Did you not say you had come here from beyond the
seas?"
Ulysses explains matters, but still withholds his name, nevertheless
Alcinous (who seems to have shared in the general opinion that it
was high time his daughter got married, and that, provided she
married somebody, it did not much matter who the bridegroom might
be) exclaimed, "By Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see
what kind of a person you are and how exactly our opinions coincide
upon every subject, I should so like it if you would stay with us
always, marry Nausicaa, and become my son-in-law.


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