Their suggestions, hat she avoid both matrimony and selling her body, offer no other possible avenues of escape in her future:Lucy's surroundings have not been the most cheerful.He explains the lure of Paris:And for a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris...All aboard for Miami, Palm Beach and points south." His squash buddy Frank remarks that he looks awfully white after having spent "two weeks in Florida.However, she cried and was upset that it wasn't the one she had seen advertised on television: ("It's the wrong one.He wears a dark priestly robe and has a distinctive, jagged widow's peak on his forehead.Werdegast greets his old friend - or enemy: "It has been a long time Hjalmar.The years have been kind to you." Poelzig also takes a desirous, but repressed, covert interest in Joan.When they are alone together, Werdegast is outwardly cordial, but in a tense scene, he confronts and taunts his host Poelzig with raging animosity for betraying him (and thousands of other Hungarians) over fifteen years earlier.