“Yes,” said King, gently, “I like it.”
“Have you seen it before?”
“Yes!”
“Tell me what about it impresses you most.”
“The two little faces.”
“Oh! and I love them most, too. Perhaps you have never heard the romance, the miracle of that window.”
“Romance? Miracle?”
“It is a memorial to Agnes Vandilever, erected by her husband.”
“Yes, I know. But the romance?”
“The artist who designed it, though he had never seen or heard of her child, accidentally made the two faces portraits of that child. If she had posed for him, they could not have been nearer perfect. That’s why her father selected the design over the dozens submitted.”