- [Imlac consults an art book]
- Imlac Defraits: [Quoting] "Little is known of the life of Alberto Mantogini; even his date of birth is conjectural"...
- Oldenshaw: Like almost all the ladies of my acquaintance.
- Imlac Defraits: I find your modesty even more alarming than your conceit.
- Oldenshaw: Forgive me. It won't occur again.
- [Oldenshaw and Defraits survey the painting of St. Sebastian and ponder why why authorities were so convinced it was genuine]
- Imlac Defraits: You only got to look at it ... to be filled with a terrible ... uncertainty.
- Oldenshaw: As one so often is with people, Imlac, don't you find?