Since orchid, gardenia, and violet corsages are considerably above her affordable price range (at $5/, $6.50 or $2/apiece), she feigns dis-satisfaction and leaves:When one goes to a lot of parties, it""s so difficult o find something new and original, something no one else would hink of wearing." When she insisted her precious time was "reserved for police officers with real needs and real problems," he embarrassed her in front of colleagues by implying she was begging to go out with him.The moonlight, the swampy marshes, and the surface of the lake all capture the astonishing play of the light.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.