" Katie comments on Rose""s use of the telephone - a new invention:Personally, I wouldn""t marry a man who proposed to me over an invention....Those nights sitting and waiting for you to finish your program and come by.Nights when it would start to get late and I""d start to think: ""I wonder if he""s run himself off a cliff or maybe he""s run into a blonde.He tried to silence her: "I want no orders from a woman." She realized it was their first true, harsh argument since their engagement.Back in Cleopatra""s wagon with Hercules, where she was preparing a meal for him, he realized that she was extorting French money from Hans.The second scene, producing even more unease in the viewer, is introduced by the opening of a creaking old iron gate (by an unidentified hand of a black man) outside a tropical garden and bungalow.