
By four the painting is finished except for one panel, and the one panel is the reason the room let them do the other six so easily.
MalfoidIt wants me on my hands and knees over the stool with you behind me, and it wants it with the window in shot, and it wants it with my face turned away.
PorterWhy the face away?
MalfoidBecause the man who painted it knew that the whole of this house is a woman pretending to be a name, and a name does not have a face.