"Which of the Sibyls is your favourite?" he asked.
At once she indicated the Delphic, but without speaking.
"Mine too."
Both fixed their eyes upon the figure, and were silent.
"You have been here very often?" were Mallard's next words.
"Last year very often."
"From genuine love of it, or a sense of duty?" he asked, examining her face.
She considered before replying.
"Not only from a sense of duty, though of course I have felt that. I don't love anything of Michael Angelo's, but I am compelled to look and study. I came here this morning only to refresh my memory of one of those faces"—she pointed to the lower part of the Last Judgment—"and yet the face is dreadful to me."
She found that he was smiling, and abruptly she added the question: