Out of this metal basin Tommy, who gambolled into the place ahead of us, began to drink in a greedy and demonstrative fashion.
"The Life-water ?" I said, looking at our guide.
She nodded and asked in her turn: "What is the statue and what does it signify, Humphrey ?" I hesitated, but Bastin answered: "Just a rather ugly woman who hid up her figure because it was bad.
Probably she was a relation of the artist who wished to have her likeness done and sat for nothing." "The goddess of Health," suggested Bickley.

"Her proportions are perfect; a robust, a thoroughly normal woman." "Now, Humphrey," said Yva.
I stared at the work and had not an idea.

Then it flashed on me with such suddenness and certainty that I am convinced the answer to the riddle was passed to me from her and did not originate in my own mind.
"It seems quite easy," I said in a superior tone.

"The figure symbolises Life and is draped because we only see the face of Life, the rest is hidden.

The arms are bare because Life is real and active.