"How?"
"In choosing friends," she answered.
His mind went back to the scene of that morning. Did she speak of the taskmaster?
"Thou hast found it so?" he asked.
"Thou hast said." She added no more, though the sculptor was eager for an example.
"How goes it with the statue?" she asked, seeing that he did not move out of her path.
"Slowly," he answered. "But it shall hasten to completeness when I once begin."
"What wilt thou do with it when it is done? Destroy it?"
He shook his head with a smile.
"Leave it there to betray thee to the vengeance of the priesthood one day?"