Farewell, Pygmalion, till I return.

[Exit.

Pyg.

"The thing is but a statue after all!"

Cynisca little thought that in those words

She touched the key-note of my discontent.

True, I have powers denied to other men;

Give me a block of senseless marble—Well,

I'm a magician, and it rests with me

To say what kernel lies within its shell;