He continued after a pause: "Yes, mademoiselle, I discovered that I was loved, and watched over and guided by ONE so divinely beautiful, so gloriously faithful, that mortal language fails before the description of such perfection!" He paused again, and again continued: "When he found me perfectly healthy again in mind and body, Heliobas showed me his art of mixing colours.

From that hour all my works were successful.

You know that my pictures are eagerly purchased as soon as completed, and that the colour I obtain in them is to the world a mystery almost magical.

Yet there is not one among the humblest of artists who could not, if he chose, make use of the same means as I have done to gain the nearly imperishable hues that still glow on the canvases of Raphael.

But of this there is no need to speak just now.