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Sandy: I'm here, aren't I?Again, Sandy shows her willingness to sneak around, keep secrets, and pursue mysterious things behind other people's backs.[The camera motion signifies Jeffrey's feverish, dream-like descent into his own subconscious.From this point until the end of the film, Jeffrey takes a psychic, internal journey through his own dark side of desires and fears.The film required numerous cuts to avoid an X-rating.In this film, Jason didn't actually appear - except as part of the prologue's nightmare or as Tommy's haunting hallucination.I might become an adventuress.Tom: I can just see you starting for China on a twenty-six foot sail boat.Gerry: You're thinking of an adventurer, dear.An adventuress never goes on anything under three hundred feet with a crew of eighty.Tom: Well, you just let me catch you on a 300-foot yacht or even a 200-foot yacht.Gerry: At least I wouldn't have to worry about the rent.During dinner as they both become tipsy, Gerry suggests hat they'd be better off as brother and sister - another foreshadowing of a ploy that she will use to help benefit their welfare." Humbert, seeking revenge on his arch-nemesis (and fellow rival pedophile), is seen putting on fingerprint-concealing leather gloves: "Shall we have a little chat before we start?"Following the theme of Roman times even further, Quilty challenges Humbert "to a little lovely game of Roman ping-pong like two civilized Senators.