What does ‘such a thing’ refer to? The car belongs to their friend Jacson, a young Belgian they’ve befriended who sometimes drives them places. Marguerite told a story during the party about how this same young man once chased Frida around Paris. “He won’t admit it,” Marguerite said. “But his girlfriend Sylvia says he was infatuated. Do you recall him? Apparently he followed you for days, trying to meet you.” “How could I remember which one he was?” Frida asked, tilting her head so one gold earring danced against her black hair. There was no smile or dazzle, she was play-acting at being coy, a habit without feeling. “On the day your show opened, Jacson apparently waited all afternoon outside the gallery with a bouquet the size of a Dalmatian. When you finally came, you told him to make a kite from his pants, and threw the flowers in the gutter!” “The poor man,” Diego said. “Frida destroys them all.”The look that passed between them held such awful sadness. If either of the two had painted such a thing, it would have to be torn down from the wall. What does ‘such a thing’ refer to in the last sentence: If either of the two had painted such a thing? Does it refer to the awful sadness mentioned in the previous sentence? PS: It’s from The Lacuna by Kingsolver. This scene happened after Diego and Frida got divorced.