Then Penelope sprang up from her couch, threw her arms round Euryclea, and wept for joy. Telemachus knew all the time that he was come back, but kept his father's secret that he might have his revenge on all these wicked people." He was the stranger whom they all kept on treating so badly in the cloister. It is quite true as I tell you that Ulysses is come home again. "My dear child," answered Euryclea, "I am not mocking you. Go back again into the women's room if it had been any one else who had woke me up to bring me such absurd news I should have sent her away with a severe scolding. Why should you thus mock me when I have trouble enough already-talking such nonsense, and waking me up out of a sweet sleep that had taken possession of my eyes and closed them? I have never slept so soundly from the day my poor husband went to that city with the ill-omened name. This is what they must have been doing to you for you always used to be a reasonable person. The gods sometimes send some very sensible people out of their minds, and make foolish people become sensible. "My good nurse," answered Penelope, "you must be mad. Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son." "Wake up Penelope, my dear child," she exclaimed, "and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. Penelope Eventually Recognises Her Husband-Early in the Morning Ulysses, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius Leave the Town.Įuryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home.
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