He abruptly leaves after receiving he tragic news that his father has had a stroke.The beautiful harmony of their mutual attraction is shattered.The last shot of the scene is a long, sustained close-up of Mary (with a mixed expression of sadness, concern and disappointment).Ford's film was about a fanatical quest o liberate the young girl, restore her virtue, and return her to society, in order to purify the searcher's own soul, although he remains an outsider.During a dark, quiet night in the wooded area near the cabin, the driver (the woman's husband) reaches for his oily, rag-wrapped gun in the glove compartment where bullets are also concealed...There is one, the undead, who, if brought back to life, is bound by sacred law to consummate this curse.[The film, possessing a circular structure, ends with a pan moving in the reverse direction.] The camera slowly zooms in toward the third window on he side of a brick building where a half-full whiskey bottle hangs from a rope attached to the window crank.