In a classic scene, only moments later the Count appears at her sleeping side, leaning over her.He bends down to bite her neck to suck her blood, making her his prey.The scene cuts away and immediately dissolves into the Sanitarium""s amphitheatre during a medical examination of Lucy - who has been brought there after many unsuccessful blood ransfusions." Shaye suggested that she would reprise her starring role as Nancy Thompson: "You""re he star" - but she was very unsure, now that she was a mother.They ask if he has any "axe to grind" or pet project that would be good for the country, such as a "Save the Buffaloes" campaign or a pension bill.The story is poignantly and sentimentally told from the eyes of a six year old tom-boy - Jean Louise "Scout" Finch (9 year-old Mary Badham in her film debut).Delighted with her arrival, he called for his wife Cora (Dorothy Cumming), a tough pioneer woman, o welcome his cousin ("Cora! Letty""s come!"), but she was less than thrilled to greet Letty, as she was tending to the hree young children.