"That, in any case, will not be easy.

But I will do my best.

You knew Korinna ?" "Seleukus's daughter ?" "She herself--the maiden from whose corpse I am painting her portrait." "No.

But you wanted--" "I wanted to be brief, but I care even more to be understood; and if you have never seen with your own eyes, if you do not yourself know what a miracle of beauty the gods wrought when they molded that maiden, you are indeed justified in regarding me as a fool and Philip as a madman--which, thank the gods, he certainly is not yet." "Then he too has seen the dead maiden ?" "No, no.

And yet--perhaps.