Rembrandt's Mirror by Devereux Kim

Author:Devereux, Kim [Devereux, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Published: 2015-08-05T23:00:00+00:00

But how could I, so undeserving of grace, how could I abide in bliss? To find such joy in flesh was wrong. And with that thought my lips had turned to clay. He let go of me and I of him. I told myself that it was good I’d called a halt to lust (if it had indeed been lust).

He leaned back a little so he could look at me but I glanced down, unable to face him.

‘You are right, you are the reason I am sending Geertje away. I have no design as to how things will be from now on, but they could not have stayed as they were. Change is the way, no point opposing it.’

After that he went downstairs and bid me stay in the studio.

After a while the pupils started to arrive. It was now late morning and Dirck had brought in a bust from the kunstkammer as a drawing exercise. He told me, ‘You are to stay here with us.’

‘Where is he?’

‘Making arrangements.’

I watched them gather around the bust and start to draw. Rembrandt finally returned a few hours later and told me to go downstairs and prepare lunch. That was all he said.

I wondered if Geertje was really gone so I checked her room. The few personal things she had possessed were no longer there. The shelves were empty, the bed was tidy and made up. I wondered about Titus. Rembrandt must have sent him to school. I hoped he at least got to say goodbye to her.

I set about preparing lunch the way Geertje would have done.

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