When he rises to leave, he lightly places his hand on Laura""s cloth-coated shoulder and then departs.After the rape attempt, Alma ventures to the bus station to leave own for good.She shows disgust-attraction at Hud while he tries o assuage her feelings:Well, it looks like we""re losin"" a good cook.Shaped like a barn.This is absolutely crazy.Trembling, but interested in pursuing the unidentified phenomenon ("Just off the Telemark Expressway and east toward Harper Valley"), Roy takes off in pursuit without a second thought.He even revealed some of his inner hostility toward her, when he bluntly old her: "Because with you I can""t get involved.