-"Pleas don't -"I must. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason." -"I told you the real reason." - "No: you did not. You said it was because there was too much of yourself it. Now, that is childish." "Harry", said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter, it is rather the painter on the coloured canvas who reveals himself. The reason why I will not exhibit this picture, is that I am afraid that I have shown on it the secret of my own soul." Lord Henry laughed. "And what is that?" he asked. "I will tell you," said Hallward and an expression of perplexity came over his face. "I am all expectation, Basil," murmured his companion, looking at him. "Oh! There is really very little to
