[He too is stunned into silence by the sudden and sharp downturn of her tone. He proceeds in bemusement.]

For what are you so upset? You have chosen your lover, have you not? How rare an opportunity this is for a woman, when in the custom of the Achaeans her father chooses for her a husband and she with her woman's graciousness learns to love the man who has paid bride price to bring her to his house.