"Then I am still beautiful to you?"
The maid smiled. "Madame, that handsome young man with the little green bird...."
"Well?"
"Madame is not offended?"
"No, Sarah. Speak on."
"Well, it would appear that madame—and madame knows that I am observing—no longer despises mankind."
"Oh, but he isn't a man, Sarah!"
"But yes, madame!"
"No. He is an anachronism—a half-god who has lost the way to Olympus."
"Ah! If madame is not interested?"—with a sigh of relief.