[00:00.37] Chapter 32.
[00:02.02] The portrait.
[00:04.57] Rosamond was rather like a grown-up Adele.
[00:07.97] We became friends, and she often came to see the school children.
[00:12.81] Usually when Sinjin Rivers was teaching their Bible class.
[00:17.18] She flirted with him in the hope of winning him, and I knew he loved her.
[00:23.51] But he poured his passion into his work.
[00:28.93] I drew a portrait of Rosamond for her father, and Sinjin, when he came to call, admired it very much.
[00:37.87] I felt it would do him good to talk about her.
[00:42.07] You'd like a copy, wouldn't you?
[00:44.03] I said, "I'll do one for you."
[00:47.84] I don't think I should have her portrait, he said.
[00:52.44] You should certainly have the original, I told him, meaning Rosamond herself.
[01:00.76] She is a sweet girl.
[01:03.03] She talks of you continually and she loves you.
[01:09.09] What a wonderful idea, he said.
[01:13.24] To my astonishment, he took out his watch and placed it on the table.
[01:22.26] Let us allow a quarter of an hour to talk of Rosamond, to be married to Rosamond.
[01:32.42] Then he fell into a happy daydream of a future with her.
[01:38.82] After exactly 15 minutes, he put the watch back in his pocket.
[01:45.68] It is not to be, he said.
[01:49.10] She could never be a missionary's wife.
[01:53.88] Then don't be a missionary, I said.
[01:58.58] My great work!
[02:01.19] He exclaimed, it is all I live for.
[02:08.01] Poor Rosamond, I said.
[02:12.16] She will forget me and marry somebody else.
[02:18.37] He looked again at the portrait.
[02:21.68] Then he cast a sharp, sudden glance at the piece of scrap paper underneath it.
[02:29.00] He picked it up, examined it, glanced at me and tore a strip from the margin.
[02:37.36] He said goodbye and left in a hurry.
[02:43.36] It made no sense to me.
[02:46.54] I looked carefully at the sheet of scrap paper, but I saw nothing interesting.
[02:53.75] Soon I had forgotten all about it.