Sheriff. nothing here but kitchen things.
(the county attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. he gets up on a
chair and looks on a shelf. pulls his hand away, sticky.)
county attorney. here's a nice mess.
(the women draw nearer)
mrs. peters (to the other woman). oh, her fruit; it did freeze. (to the lawyer). she worried about that when it
turned so cold. she said the fire'd go out and her jars would break
what do the underlined stage directions suggest about the women, mrs. hale and mrs. peters?

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses