Dear boy, it means it was a royal order, and that I've been on the royal loaf on the strength of it; and, now that I repent me, I haven't got a model.
ROBERT ADDISON.
No model?
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.
The subject is to be Susannah—Susannah before the Elders. You know the kind of thing—(whispers).
ROBERT ADDISON.
Yes, of course, and I suppose—? (whispers).
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.
Yes, and—(touches his arms and chest, signifying a fine woman—whispers).
ROBERT ADDISON.