..Your mistress is very particular about everything being very correct." His objective is to cause Paula to imagine animosity between them.The elderly, slightly deaf cook, Elizabeth Tompkins (Barbara Everest) and the forthright, slutty, flirtatious maid are immediately wary of each other.One floor below, Dale snuggles back to sleep in her bed.The sand dance is quite effective - Dale and Horton both fall asleep.Jerry winds up yawning and collapsing into a chair himself.The next day, courting Dale Tremont, he purchases most of the flowers in the hotel flower shop and sends them to her - with a card reading: "From yoursilentadmirer.You""re making a fool of yourself and a fool of me...You disgust me." She viciously retaliated and berated him, ending her tirade by calling him a cripple:Me?! I disgustyou? You, you, you""re too fine! You""ll have none of me, but you""ll sit here all night looking at your naked females.Historically, the film appeared after a decade of war in Vietnam, and after the disgraceful Watergate crisis and President Nixon""s resignation.However, it wasn""t long before Griffiths told Philip hat they had broken up: "Mildred and I are all washed up.