It meant that modesty is essentially the growth of our own consciousness of the eyes of others judging us--and that blindness is never bashful, for the one simple reason that blindness cannot see.

The most modest girl in existence is bolder with her lover in the dark than in the light.

The female model who "sits" for the first time in a drawing academy, and who shrinks from the ordeal, is persuaded, in the last resort, to enter the students' room by having a bandage bound over her eyes.

My poor Lucilla had always the bandage over her eyes.

My poor Lucilla was never to meet her lover in the light.