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Description:00 10 20 00 United States, 1910s. At night, in front of his house, Otis Harlan, just returning from a journey, perceives with bewilderment that his daughter, Doris May, is threatening with a revolver a young man in a bathrobe. He intervenes and, much to his surprise, recognizes the threatened young man, Hallam Cooley. Reunion. Both men are delighted. Doris May is confused by the embarrassing situation. Much later, Hallam Cooley and Doris May talk, looking at each other as though in love. They are embarrassed. Doris's father, Otis Harlan, takes his future son-in-law by the arm, and shows him the place for a new painting. Close-up: painting, slightly Cubist. He describes the beauty of the painting; Harlan is excited. The son-in-law wonders why the frame is empty. Harlan tells him that he is waiting for a painting by the painter Millet. Cooley replies that someone has just stolen his Millet painting.