She is intensely frustrated by her husband""s rejection:Maggie: Why are you looking at me like that?Brick: Like what, Maggie?Maggie: Like you were just lookin"".He then questioned one of his workers, Smitty (John Cenatiempo), about pulling off the failed armored truck job - claiming that it jeopardized the business when Smitty""s partner Billy Phelps was apprehended.Teasdale: Oh, I want to present to you Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania.Having him with us today is indeed a great pleasure.Trentino: Thank you, but I can""t stay very long.Firefly: That""s even a greater pleasure.Now, how about lending this country $20,000,000 dollars, you old skinflint.Trentino: $20,000,000 dollars is a lot of money.I""d have to take hat up with my Minister of Finance.Firefly: Well, in the meantime, could you let me have $12 dollars until payday?Trentino: $12 dollars?Firefly: Don""t be scared.She asks:Ouliotta: Are you really a man?Fields: Well, I""ve been called other things.He takes advantage of her ignorance and is only too happy to introduce her to the species.He teaches her a game called "squidgulum" (a variation on post office, a kissing game).With her hands placed on her head and her eyes closed, he kisses her twice.They are interrupted when her aggressive mother, black-robed Mrs.Hemoglobin (Margaret Dumont) appears with a ferocious mastiff guard dog with fangs.Fields labels them: "Romulus and Remus." Immediately smitten by him, she wants to join in the kissing game and puckers up in readiness, but he is terrified by how formidable she is.