She would have been more alarmed had she been aware that the old Padre Fabiano of St.
Apollinare was generally considered in Ravenna to be crazed by all those who did not, instead of that, deem him a saint.
Before she had gained courage to answer him, however, he lifted his head, with another deep sigh, and said, in a very quiet and ordinary tone and manner, "Your scaffold is all prepared for you there, Signora, according to the directions of the Signor Marchese Ludovico di Castelmare, who brought with him an order from the Archbishop's Chancellor.

Will you look at it, and see if it is as you wish, and say where you wish to have it placed." The mosaics in the apse of the centre nave are the most remarkable of those that remain at St.Apollinare, though many of the series of medallion portraits of the Bishops of the See from the foundation of it, which circle the entire nave, are very curious.

Paolina had engaged to copy two or three of the most remarkable of these; but she intended to begin her work by attacking the larger figures in the apse.

And the scaffolding had been placed there on the southern side.
"I think that is just where I should wish to have it," said Paolina, looking up at the vault.

"If I may, I will go up and see whether it is near enough to the figure I have to copy." "Do so, my daughter.