I looked at it in wonder.

Instinctively I spoke to him. “What are you painting?” I said. “Is it the Heavenly Child?”

“No,” he said, “it is a cow!”

Then I looked again and I could see that it was a cow.

I looked straight into his eyes.

“It shall be our secret,” I said; “no one else shall know.”

And I knew that I loved him.

“No,” he said, “it is a cow”