Helen appreciated her. When Helen and Paris left Sparta as lovers and sailed to Troy , they started their fateful journey by night, and when she returned after the war, they say that she waited for the night to go out in order to avoid being stoned, if she went out by day, by the parents whose sons had perished at Troy . For Helen was called Lady of Sorrows for having caused, as they saw it, that great war. But during the night she was safe, not only because Night provides hiding but also because the others mourned, for tears are shed mostly in night-time. Heracles 1 's night blindness.
Night covers shame.
And the guilty love of Adonis ' mother Smyrna for her father could not have occurred without Night, for only her dark power and her child Deceit could prevent her father from knowing that he was sharing his bed with his daughter, which he did no less than twelve times. Nyx may spare lives. And for those who are utterly unhappy it does not make any difference whether it is day or night, and that is why Demeter , when looking for her abducted daughter, carried torches during daytime as well. Night restores what Day undid and destroys what Day did. Night, they say, carries Hypnos in her arms, but if he refuses his comfort, the night-long vigils make the eyes of mortals sore.