He shows good taste.

It is the tall slender girl that is really the most beautiful and the most graceful, not the large-limbed, strong-bodied peasant type that his companions would prefer.

Without knowing it, he has fallen in love like an artist.

And he is not blind to the, grace of slenderness and of form, though he cannot express it in artistic language.

He can only compare the shape of the girl's feet to the ivory feet of the divinities in the temples--perhaps he is thinking of some ivory image of Aphrodite which he has seen.