Intended as a wedding present for his daughter, he questioned his clerk Tanner (Cyril Thornton) about their whereabouts." Slyly and alluringly, Slim suggests: "Maybe I can do something.It""s been a long day and I""m thirsty," promising o rendezvous with Morgan afterwards.In her accustomed role as a slinky pickpocket, she selects a French officer as her prey in the barroom (by asking for a cigarette light for the cigarette that she had just borrowed from Harry) and begins dancing with him.] The unusual, out-of-place object with straight-edges causes them to be alarmed and they react nervously." Although they had seen Earth""s destruction, they had barely escaped through a time warp: "We have passed through a backward disturbance in time.