St. Dorothy was lead out of the court to her execution - beheading by sword. Upon reaching the landing where she was to be executed, St. Dorothy knelt in prayer whereupon a child appeared, maybe four years in age. The child had a cloth in his hand with three different fruits and three magnificent roses. St. Dorothy instructed the child to take these fruits and roses to Theophilus and say to him "Here are the fruits and flowers from paradise which you asked for." St. Dorothy then laid her head down, and was martyred. Meanwhile Theophilus was joking with his colleagues and telling them of this woman Dorothy; his story was met with hearty laughter and applause for his cutting wit. During the commotion of the laughter a child walked among them and approached Theophilus. Opening up his cloth the child said, "These are the fruits and flowers you asked the holy Dorothy to send you. I have brought them at her request from the garden of her divine spouse." At once the child vanished. Stunned, and utterly shocked by the child's appearance and the gifts, Theophilus experienced a sudden conversion. His colleagues jested with him and tried to laugh him to his senses, but he could not shake off what had just happened. Attempting to reason with his companions Theophilus said "It is midwinter, there are no fruits or flowers like these in February. Our gardens are bare and our fruit trees leafless." Nothing his friends could say or do would shake Theophilus's new found faith, even though believing in such a faith had just led St. Dorothy to her death; a death Theophilus himself mocked. Theophilus himself was brought before the same court, but this time not as a lawyer, but as the accused. He stood before the judge charged with being a convert to the new religion Christianity - Theophilus gave witness to the court, whereupon he was summarily condemned to death - the death of a martyr. Burne-Jones, who received the princely sum of £12 for designing this window, gave Theophilus a rather androgynous face. He carries a large book of the law while looking somewhat out of sorts by his confrontation with the angel. The also androgynous angel bears a flame for the Holy Spirit on his head, and carries three apples – the fruits from the gardens of paradise. Dorothea (next page) holds a branch of an apple tree. The window portraying Dorothea is perhaps the most intriguing of the three inasmuch until recently we believed the model for Dorothea was Jane Morris. However, in a recent talk in the church given by Suzanne Fagence Cooper, the non-fiction writer who has written extensively on the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian women, the speaker believed the model to be Maria Zambaco, 1843 – 1914. The window was installed in 1873, soon after Burne-Jones and Maria Zambaco finished a rather public and torrid affair. Despite this Burne-Jones continued to use her as a model for many of his later works. The following short biography of Zambaco helps fill in some of the background to this fascinating figure, and the article following this one “Burne-Jones’ Pursuit of Love by Fiona MacCarthy gives a more in-depth account of her affair with Burne-Jones.