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True that almost every face is pretty against the distended silk full of sunlight and shadow, but Doris's, I swear to you, was as pretty as any medieval virgin despite its modernness. Memline himself never designed a more appealing little face.
Hers was not like any face that one may find in a panel by Memline. She was like something, but I could not lay my thoughts on what she was like. "A sail would spoil the beauty of the bay," I said when the waiter brought in the coffee, and left us we hoped for the last time. Taking hands and going to the window we sat looking across the sailless bay. "How is it that no ships come here?
And you, Doris, you might have been dug up yesterday, though you are but two-and-twenty. You are a thing of yester age, not a bit like the little Memline head which I imagined you to be like when I was coming here in the train, nor like anything done by the Nuremberg painters. You are a Tanagra figure, and one of the finest. In you I read all the winsomeness of antiquity.
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