Your report agrees with mine; there is no noise here either. Electra Well then, I will listen in the gateway. Chorus (Calling through the door.) You within the house, why are you delaying to spill your victim’s blood, now that all is quiet? Electra spoken They do not hear; alas for my troubles! Can it be that her beauty has blunted their swords? sung Soon some Argive in full armor, hurrying to her rescue, will attack the palace. spoken Keep a better look-out; it is not a contest of sitting still; turn about, some here, some there. Chorus sung I am looking everywhere in turn along the road. Helen within Oh, Pelasgian Argos! I am being foully murdered. Chorus Did you hear? The men have put their hand to the slaughter. It is Helen screaming, at a guess. Electra sung O eternal might of Zeus, of Zeus, only come to help my friends! Helen within Menelaus, I am dying, but you do not help me, though you are near. Electra sung Slay her, kill her, destroy her! Stab with your twin double-edged swords the woman who left her father, left her husband, and killed so many of the men of Hellas , slain beside the river-bank, where tears rained down, by the iron darts all round the eddies of Scamander. Chorus Leader Hush! hush! I caught the sound of a foot-fall on the road near the house.