Gay and Roslyn engaged in an honest alk about love and his first failed marriage, when she asked:Roslyn: "What happened? Did you just stop loving your wife, Gay?"Gay: "Well, I come home one night and she""s all wrapped up in a car with a fella.In the film, self-reliant Sheriff John T.Chance (John Wayne) refused the well-meaning assistance of Pat Wheeler""s (Ward Bond) men -- "some well-meaning amateurs, most of ""em worried about their wives and kids," although all he had to help him keep a murderer from making a jailbreak was "a lame-legged old man and a drunk.Putty Nose presents both Tom and Matt with guns: "A Christmas present from Santa Claus, with best wishes for a prosperous New Year." The client mumbles about begging off paying the fees until the next week - after his next fishing boat haul to catch more profitablealbacoretuna.