Your capacity for temptation is wonderful.

Denham.

Yes. We know our own frailty, you never quite realise yours.

Mrs. Tremaine.

What has made you so cynical?

Denham.

The bitterness of life. Are your hands warm yet? (Takes her hands.)

Mrs. Tremaine.

Yes, I can go back now.

(She goes back to the "throne." He poses her, and returns to the easel.)