"Mother! mother!" she cried, "why does he love me so much? I know why I love him. I love him because he is like what Love himself should be. But what does he see in me? I am not worthy of him. And yet – why, I cannot tell – though I feel so much beneath him, I don’t feel humble. I feel proud, terribly proud"
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 5. The pitiful naivety and innocence of Sibyl is vividly demonstrated in these words to her mother. She feels that she is not worthy of Dorian’s love and wonders what he sees in her. Her purity and lack of guile stand in stark contract to Lord Henry’s deviousness and cynical manipulation of people.