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[763] The supposed want of connexion in Helen's words has aroused the scorn of many German editors. Most readers will feel little enough to deride in the speech. The thought evidently is ‘Although Paris, not Hector, was my husband, and therefore I had no claim to kindness from Hector, such as I should expect from my husband, yet,’ etc.

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