Andy: I wonder if you might get me a rock-hammer.Red:...What is it and why?Andy: What do you care?Red: What if it was a toothbrush? I wouldn""t ask questions."In silhouette, Ashley and Melanie move toward French windows.When they are opened, the lawn is revealed outside filled with festive surroundings and guests.Lovingly, the pale, white-skinned Ashley speaks to her: "You seem to belong here.As if it had all been imagined for you." Melanie describes the aristocratic Southern style that she is marrying into: "It""s more than a house.The female voice of the author of the letter [functioning as the film""s screenplay] is heard explaining (in voice-over) her memories and how her life was a series of inevitabilities to an unidentified addressee (Brand is the ""you"" in the letter):By the timeyouread this letter, I may be dead." He also stressed to the group about the locked doorways: "No one will be allowed to leave until the show is over.