- Martin Radley: I've decided to leave England, Barbara, and incidentally to leave you in peace for the rest of your life.
- Barbara Everton: Well I wish you had done so without telling me that you were alive.
- Martin Radley: No doubt, but I'm afraid that was impossible. I'm broke, my dear, and air passages are strictly cash. I need £500.
- Barbara Everton: I haven't a penny.
- [Martin looks around Barbara's opulent drawing room]
- Martin Radley: You disguise the fact admirably.
- [Barbara arrives home to find her aunt waiting in the drawing room]
- Barbara Everton: Aunt Laura! I was *so* pleased to get your wire. What brings you to London after all these years?
- Aunt Laura: Your uncle's going to be hung.
- [Barbara is stunned, thinking at first of the execution meaning of "hung"]
- Barbara Everton: What?
- Aunt Laura: It's that water-colour of Rosedale Abbey and I must say it's good.
- [the penny finally drops]
- Barbara Everton: You mean he's going to be hung in the Royal Academy?