This drawing was enlarged and elaborated in a dramatic watercolour Burne-Jones completed in the mid-1890's (If Hope Were Not, Heart Should Break). This drawing was given to Helen Gaskell, one of the many gifts of pictures that he presented to her as a mark of his friendship. In both pictures, the solitary figure of the woman lifting her arms to the heavens is probably intended to depict Spes, the Roman Goddess of Hope.