Oh, she was so shy, and so gentle. There is something of a child about her. Her eyes opened wide in exquisite wonder when I told her what I thought of her performance, and she seemed quite unconscious of her power.

– Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 4. Dorian describe Sibyl to Lord Henry, portraying her as someone with childlike innocence and not at all aware of the power she possessed in performing her stage art.