How should it, with that life in these four walls,

That father and that mother, first to last

No father and no mother—friends, a heap,

Lovers, no lack—a husband in due time,

And every one of them alike a lie!

Things painted by a Rubens out of naught

Into what kindness, friendship, love should be;

All better, all more grandiose than the life,

Only no life; mere cloth and surface-paint,

You feel, while you admire. How should she feel?