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Rh Strange, strange.... (Recovers gaiety and turns to picture.) See how it grows, Lucia. All that I seraped out yesterday I have repainted. Long before the Competition Day I shall have finished it. (Hnthusiasit- cally.) Look!

Lacia The glow, the warmth, the colour—you’ve caught it all?

Paulo I hope so. But when my model and my eritic desert me both at once like this———

Lucia Dear Paulo. (Sighs.) And it’s so diffi- eult for me to make five seudi do the work of ten. (Shows agitation.) I know, oh, I know. (Hecitement.) Yet somehow, some- how we shall find a way. And it will be wonderful,

Paulo (Noticing her mood and wondering.) It is you who are wonderful—( shakes finger at her) intriguing with Fate as ever