Priam resists Hekuba's plea that he send some of his sons out of Troy before the war. Hektor returns from Thebes with Andromache his betrothed, and requests to be allowed to meet the Achaean delegation. And, when news of Kalchas' defection comes to Troy, and Pandarus' family suffers scorn, he tries to arrange a marriage between Trojan prince Troilus and his niece Cressida.
