The title of this piece implies that the two women are meeting for the first time. There is a sense of formality in their body language and in their seating positions at the table; they are not yet familiar with each other. Although there are three people in this painting, it seems that there is only one subject: the woman in the green blouse. She is the only person in this scene whose facial expression is discernible to the viewer. Her look is stern and focused. She watches her interlocutor intently. The other woman and the waiter take on anonymous roles on this canvas, so the only information that the viewer can learn about the dialogue in this scene comes from the painting’s subject. It might even be said that the viewer experiences this scene from the perspective of the woman in the green blouse, who acts as the focal point on the canvas. This painting is from the series ‘Lumberton,’ in which Wolfgang Dieter Bauer examines the complex tensions between the real, the dreamt and the imagined, by highlighting moments where it becomes difficult to tell them apart.