I have another question to ask you.

You've been told of the invitation to read at the literary matinee.
It was arranged through me.

Tell me what you're going to read ?" "Why, about that very Queen of Queens, that ideal of humanity, the Sistine Madonna, who to your thinking is inferior to a glass or a pencil." "So you're not taking something historical ?'" said Varvara Petrovna in mournful surprise.

"But they won't listen to you.

You've got that Madonna on your brain.