This quote is one used in many of the journals to support Penelope’s early recognition. This is when Penelope begins to test her theory of who the beggar is. She asks questions that only someone who had seen Odysseus or was him would know. She has not even learned of the beggar’s name, but feels comfortable enough to open up to him, and even ask him for information about her husband. Why would she feel so comfortable with a stranger? Before this quote she was weeping in front of the beggar and expressing her grief over her husband. Her suspicions are already in place, it is in these questions she is hoping to find an answer, to the question ‘is this her husband sitting in front of her?’. Her suspicion may have been peeked when she saw the stranger’s