At three-quarters of the way up, he pauses - a female relative from above comes down to him, cradles him, and tells the newly-orphaned boy of his father""s premature death:You must be brave now, little man.Kyle had privately planned to woo Lucy even further.With straight-talk candor, he was beginning to soften her up - and hinted at what he was expecting from her in return: ("We""re past the point of no return") - she smiled in response.There, fuel was very scarce due to a collapse of the oil-based industry, and petrol (now a precious commodity) was fought over by lawless gangs.]Fed up with Minnie""s noisy contentiousness about everything, the Burgomaster finally tells her: "Oh, shut up!"Hans (Reginald Barlow), the peasant father of the little girl the monster accidentally drowned, and his wife (Mary Gordon) linger at the site.