Colin: It’s very good.

Gwen: I used to love painting.

Colin (moving to the other picture): This yours too?

Gwen: No; that’s by ... somebody else.

[He looks at her—and back at the picture.

Colin (meaning it): It’s quite beautiful.

Gwen (with eagerness): Do you think so?... I do.

Colin: It’s not unlike yours ... you knew the painter?

Gwen (simply): I wanted to marry him ... only ... well, he was quite poor, so it was stopped. And then he was killed.

Colin: In the war?