As he dangled there in mid-air over the side, he dropped his knife, as she told him:"I knew you""d come for me sooner or later.[Note: During filming, Chaplin was in the midst of a difficult divorce from his first wife, teenaged bride Mildred Harris, a 17 year-old whom the 29 year-old Chaplin married in 1918.With a production budget of $230 million, and box-office gross receipts of $262 million (domestic) and $752.I changed my book at Boots....Just as I stepped out onto the pavement...Alec: Good morning.Laura: Oh, good morning.Alec: How""s the eye?Laura: Perfectly all right.How kind it was of you to take so much rouble.Alec: Nothing at all.It""s clearing up I think.Laura: Yes, it""s going to be nice.Alec: Well, I must be getting along to the hospital.Laura: Now I must be getting along to the grocers.Alec (wryly): What exciting lives we lead, don""t we?On a third weekly trip to town, Laura is expectant about meeting Alec again, but doesn""t.Mayerling was presumably chosen by Austrian-born director Wilder as the name of the butler, because it was the name of the royal hunting lodge where the tragic, mysterious and scandalous double death (a murder/suicide?) of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary and his young Baroness mistress occurred in 1889.