And that's how my extravagance left me—apart from what I inherited naturally. Alesso Baldovinetti's Lady in Yellow has very extravagant sleeves, an amber necklace, and her hair is dressed with pearls. But it is the set of her chin, pushing her lower lip into a thinker's pose, her slightly crooked nose and her glazed inward-looking eye that suggests I shall manage.

And I did meet Paul again in front of her and now we are married.