In thispanel, all the vignettes placed on the sides and below the central onerepresent a temporal sequence that "rotates" around the central imageof Valentina from behind as she enters the room naked. Each of this secondaryvignette represents a moment in the scene that occurs simultaneously with thatimage. Bottom left, Valentina pronounces the key line of the scene: “Shut up!”,Suggesting to the reader that any other statement is superfluous. Bottom right,the scene of the love affair reflected in the mirror of a wardrobe door.Another montage among those for which Crepax is rightly famous. From anarrative point of view, however, the author has fun here by tellingValentina's "escapade" with an "old flame", that ArnoTreves who was already a third wheel in previous stories such as The Descent of1966, underlining however the different attitude of the protagonist who at theend of the story will choose to go home to Phil Rembrandt, her lifelongcompanion.