O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?

AGAVE
Answer! My heart is hanging on thy breath!

CADMUS
'Twas thou.--Thou and thy sisters wrought his death.

AGAVE
In what place was it? His own house, or where?

CADMUS
Where the dogs tore Actaeon, even there.

AGAVE
Why went he to Kithaeron? What sought he?

CADMUS
To mock the God and thine own ecstasy.

AGAVE
But how should we be on the hills this day?

CADMUS
Being mad! A spirit drove all the land that way.

AGAVE
'Tis Dionyse hath done it! Now I see.

CADMUS (_earnestly_)