The correct answer is:
- interrogate the women but spare the field hands for now. As Telemacchus states:
"Trust me, my father! thou shalt soon be taught
That I am not of drowsy mind obtuse.
But this <u>I think not likely to avail</u>
Or thee or me; ponder it yet again;
<u>For tedious were the task, farm after farm</u>
<u>To visit of those servants, proving each,</u>
And the proud suitors merciless devour
Meantime thy substance, nor abstain from aught.
<u>Learn, if thou wilt, (and I that course myself</u>
<u>Advise) who slights thee of the female train,</u>
<u>And who is guiltless; but I would not try</u>
<u>From house to house the men, far better proved</u>
Hereafter, if in truth by signs from heav’n
Inform’d, thou hast been taught the will of Jove.
