[Note: This was Hammett""s fifth and final novel, written following the hard-boiled noirsThe Maltese FalconandThe Glass Key." Carter quipped back: "Missed you too, you musty old buzzard." Carter said he had lit a candle when Wilfrid was taken away in an ambulance two months earlier.It wasn""t for Wilfrid but for himself.He was concerned that after 37 years, he might soon find himself without an employer.Wilfrid claimed he had lost 30 pounds during his stay in the "wretched" hospital before being discharged, and wondered whether his official wig would still fit on his head.You""ve had your fun.You""re spent"), dressed in her airport rental car-company uniform (she was on her way to work):My God, it""s hot." Sister Margaretta (Anna Lee) defends Maria: "After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm." Sister Berthe (Portia Nelson), the Mistress of Novices, is uncertain of the future of the independent-minded, spirited nun-in training: "We are not talking about sheep, black or white, Sister Margaretta.