Chapter 5
Dr Porhoët had asked Arthur to bring Margaret and Miss Boyd to
see him on Sunday at his apartment in the Île Saint Louis; and the
lovers arranged to spend an hour on their way at the Louvre. Susie,
invited to accompany them, preferred independence and her own
reflections.
To avoid the crowd which throngs the picture galleries on
holidays, they went to that part of the museum where ancient
sculpture is kept. It was comparatively empty, and the long halls
had the singular restfulness of places where works of art are
gathered together. Margaret was filled with a genuine emotion; and
though she could not analyse it, as Susie, who loved to dissect her
state of mind, would have done, it strangely exhilarated her. Her
heart was uplifted from the sordidness of earth, and she
