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Helen of Troy

wouldn’t ask his name nor his errand till he had had food and rest. Menelaos put off a journey he had thought of, and practised the sacrament of hospitality. But when he found out who it was, he told Paris to make himself free in the house, and after polite excuses went down to Crete, as he had planned.

So they all intended well. But Paris saw Helen, face to face.