I""ve seen too many hardened arteries dragged out to make a first-night holiday.She claimed she was becoming destitute due to the high cost of entertaining visitors and living in London ("it all akes money").After tentatively and suggestively touching (fondling and caressing in a masturbatory way) the barrel of the gun, she goads him on to be her liberating hero by daring him with a sexually-loaded line: "But you wouldn""t have the gumption to use it.They had known each other as schoolmates:Nora: Leopold, as far as I know, you""re capable of anything, even burning a factory." 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.