The youngest Goddess sat in a corner of the Universe and sulked. For aeons, she had watched the older Goddesses play each in turn with the Earth-Ball, and every time the Ball passed her way, someone said, "She is too young, and, if she played with the Ball, might injure it." Another added, "Even our honourable Sister E-- created baleful Etna in her ardent desire to give a beauteous mountain to flowering Sicily, and C--, when she designed the azure Mediterranean, raised her little finger all too hurriedly, causing the whirlpool so dreaded by Grecian sailors."