“Princess, will it please you to sit to-day?”
She turned to raise her eyes to his.
“But,” she said, “you do not paint upon the canvas. You have told me so.”
“I am a sculptor, but I have also attempted the other—”
She interrupted him.
“It would hurt your fame,” she said. “It cannot be.”
“And what does it matter whether I have fame or not?”
“Artist, it was not for that work I bade you stay,” she said.
“But it was thought so by the others, princess.”
“I—I had a desire to learn more of—of Kamakura—of people there—and so I begged you to remain.”