Leslie: Why, it""s enormous just for the two of us.Bick: Luz lives here with me - with us.First Introductions - Luz and Jett:Bick lived at Reata with his tough, cattle-driving, domineering sister Luz Benedict (Mercedes McCambridge) who managed and took care of everything after their mother passed away: "Some say she even runs the ranch!" As Leslie was met by the two Mexican housekeepers, Lupe (Tina Menard) and Petra (Ana Maria Majalca), proud, bull-headed cattle-baron Bick admonished his independent-minded and outspoken bride about being oo kind and gracious to the numerous Hispanic servants.She was entertaining her American ex-lover - without her husband present.A love triangle existed between Margot, Tony, and Mark.In the film""s first spoken words, as she poured him a drink, she referred to their secretive love relationship that had resumed after Mark had returned to the US about a year earlier - she believed (inaccurately) that her husband was oblivious to their past (and continuing) love affair.When she asked about his girlfriends, they almost kissed in a shot framed between two small ree trunks, but then she resisted and pulled away, asking: "Are you afraid to get married or something?" As he embraced her, hey collapsed on the front steps of their shared apartment.It hen turns left to track up the lawn, following a young man (son Lon) riding his bicycle onto the Smith house""s lawn.