In this short scene, Rila tries to convince the young artist to be her "princess" and not to suffer in the "shabby place" of her studio. She tells Rila that the world she works so hard in is worthless in the eyes of the man she works with, and that she wants to escape. Rila tells her that they have only met once before, and yet he wants them to be together. She says that she is 27 years old, and wants to get married. He says that he doesn't understand her, but she says that no one has rejected her, and she knows that he holds feelings for her. She asks him to tell her what it is like to understand someone