ACT II.

Scene: Same as Act I.

[Pygmalion discovered at work on an unfinished statue.]

Pyg. To-morrow my Cynisca comes to me;

Would that she had never departed hence!

It took a miracle to make me false,

And even then I was but false in thought;

A less exacting wife might be appeased

By that reflection. But Pygmalion

Must be immaculate in every thought,