The empty picture frames that hover in the background of the Washington Stage Guild’s “Tryst” seem ever more apt as this suspense drama unspools. For starters, George Love, the con-man character who sets the tale in motion, sees swindling as an art form. He may, in fact, be the son of a portrait painter. And as he busies himself with wooing and defrauding the spinsters of 1912 England, glances — appraising, covetous and as measured as snapshots — are among the tools of his trade.

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