I saw her in the Prado yesterday.

Her step was royal—queen-like—and her face

As beauteous as a saint’s in Paradise.

Lara. May not a saint fall from her Paradise,

And be no more a saint?

Don Carlos. Why do you ask?

Lara. Because ’tis whispered that this angel fell;

And though she is a virgin outwardly,

Within she is a sinner; like those panels

Or doors and altar-pieces, the old monks