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I should have been back to the ship by now.
Here comes Odysseus with the son of Achilles.
ODYSSEUS
Why are you returning so quickly, boy?
NEOPTOLEMOS
I hurry to undo the evil I have done.
ODYSSEUS
You speak strangely. What evil is that?
NEOPTOLEMOS
I was wrong to obey you and the generals.
ODYSSEUS
What did we order you to do that was wrong?
NEOPTOLEMOS
I worked guile and deceit, and successfully.
ODYSSEUS
What more do you want now?
NEOPTOLEMOS
Nothing new. I have Philoktetes's bow.
ODYSSEUS
And what will you do with it? I am afraid to ask.
NEOPTOLEMOS
I am giving it back to its rightful owner.
ODYSSEUS
You mean you'll return it?
NEOPTOLEMOS
Yes. I got it by shameful tricks.
ODYSSEUS
Do you really mean it?
NEOPTOLEMOS
I am telling the truth.
ODYSSEUS
What are you saying, son of Achilles?
NEOPTOLEMOS
Must we go over the same ground twice?
ODYSSEUS
I wish we had not gone over it the first time.
NEOPTOLEMOS
You have heard everything now.
ODYSSEUS
Someone will keep you from doing it.
NEOPTOLEMOS
Who?
ODYSSEUS
The whole Greek army, and I among them.
NEOPTOLEMOS
You are clever, Odysseus, but what you say is not.
ODYSSEUS
Neither your words nor your acts are clever.
NEOPTOLEMOS
But they are just. That is better.
ODYSSEUS
