The Water lily Pond

The Water lily Pond
Venus and Cupid
Vermeer girl with the pearl earring
¡¡¡¡ "Well--I'm an outsider to the end of my days!" he sighed after a while. "Now I'll go, my patient Sue. How good of you to wait in the rain all this time--to gratify my infatuation! I'll never care any more about the infernal cursed place, upon my soul I won't! But what made you tremble so when we were at the barrier? And how pale you are, Sue!" ¡¡¡¡ "I saw Richard amongst the people on the other side." ¡¡¡¡ "Ah--did you!" ¡¡¡¡ "He is evidently come up to Jerusalem to see the festival like the rest of us: and on that account is probably living not so very far away. He had the same hankering for the university that you had, in a milder form. I don't think he saw me, though he must have heard you speaking to the crowd. But he seemed not to notice." ¡¡¡¡ "Well--suppose he did. Your mind is free from worries about him now, my Sue?" ¡¡¡¡ "Yes, I suppose so. But I am weak. Although I know it is all right with our plans, I felt a curious dread of him; an awe, or terror, of conventions I don't believe in. It comes over me at times like a sort of creeping paralysis, and makes me so sad!"