Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid painting

Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid painting
Vanitas Still Life painting
As your friend was leaving,” she said, “he stopped in the open doorway, on the threshold there, and said to me, ‘God bless you and your roses.’ ”Perhaps this had been a peculiar thing for a man like Dunny to have said, but nothing in those six words seemed to explain why the memory of them clouded Rowena’s face with uneasiness.She said, “Just as he finished speaking, the lights pulsed and dimmed, went off—but then came on again. I didn’t think anything about it at the time, not with the storm, but now it somehow seems ... significant. I don’t know why.”Years of experience with interrogations told
John William Waterhouse The Magic Circle painting
Although Rowena was personable and lovely, although this realm of roses ought to have been pleasant, Ethan grew anxious to leave. “Did my ... my friend have any other message for me?”“No. That was all of it, I think.”“Thank you, Rowena. You’ve been helpful.”“Have I really?” she asked, looking at him strangely, perhaps as puzzled by this odd encounter as by her conversation with Dunny Whistler.“Yes,” he assured her. “Yes, you have.”Wind rattled the door again as Ethan put his hand upon the knob, and behind him Rowena said, “One more thing.”When he turned to her, although they were now almost forty feet apart, he saw that his questioning had left her more pensive than she had been when he’d first approached