I know your work is good, because I know how and why you did it.

You painted it just as you painted the spring glade, didn't you ?" "Yes," he said soberly, "I did.

But why are you afraid ?" "Why, that's the reason.

I--I'm afraid to see myself as you see me." The man's voice was gentle with feeling as he answered seriously, "Miss Andres, you, of all the people I have ever known, have the least cause to fear to look at your portrait for _that_ reason.

Come." Slowly, she went forward to stand by his side before the picture.
For some time, she looked at the beautiful work into which Aaron King had put the best of himself and of his genius.