These have been selected with the utmost care. […] He had a winged cap besides, and a magic staff wreathed with two serpents, with which he could do all sorts of things. […] “What have you to do with the arrow?” […] She would play with them, and tell them stories, and dry away their tears with her kisses, and she was with them whenever she could steal away from the many things that kept her busy. […] Take it, with my love.”