The dragon was never in better health and spirits than on the morning
when Perseus came down upon him. It is said that Andromeda told Perseus
she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking. He had got up
quite in his usual health—and so on.
When I said this to Ballard [a fellow art-student at Heatherley’s] and
that other thing which I said about Andromeda in _Life and Habit_, {225}
he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets.