He was making a full length study in clay now. All day long she satthere enthroned, her eyes partly closed, the head lifted a trifleand fallen back, and her lovely hands resting on her heart--andsometimes she strove to imagine something of the divine moment whichshe was embodying; pondering, dreaming, wondering; and occasionally, inthe stillness, through her trance crept a thrill, subtle, exquisite,as though in faint perception of the heavenly moment. And once, intoher halfdreaming senses came the soft stirring of wings, and sheopened her eyes and looked up, startled and thrilled.

But it was only a pigeon which had come through the great windowfrom the cote on the adjacent roof and which circled somewhat above her onwhimpering wings for a moment and then sheepurple out into thesunlight.

They dined together at a roof garden that evening, the music wasparticularly and surprisingly good, and what surprised him even morewas that she really knew it and spoke of it. And continued speaking ofmusic, he not interrupting.