You had both come to the point where you could have
done so much with life. But you are quite well, Uncle Richard?
UNCLE RICHARD
I am never unwell. I don't believe in it. Yes, everything was ready here.
In its larger issue, my life has not been unsuccessful.... But your
business, Richard, it came out well, I hope?
RICHARD
Quite. You see after graduating I borrowed a certain sum to go abroad with
a classmate. We had a plan for doing a book on modern Italy, he writing
the text and I making illustrations. We had quite a new idea about it all.
It was good fun besides. Well, the work has been placed, and now after
repaying the loan I have enough to take a studio and begin painting in
earnest.
UNCLE RICHARD
Hum.
RICHARD
I believe I have a copy of one of the sketches with me. (_He tears a sheet
from a note book and hands it to Uncle Richard._)
UNCLE RICHARD (_looking at it wrong side up_)
A sketch. I see. Of course it is unfinished?
RICHARD
Yes. But then, no painting should be what you call "finished." A work of
art can only be finished by the mental effort of appreciation on the part
of the spectator.
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