At the top of the ornate double staircase in the elegant heatre, Marguerite pauses to survey the well-dressed, top-hatted crowd down in the main lobby.Therefore, you will find our play turning from one of the four stories to another, as the common theme unfolds in each.de Winter.Your effort to enter the conversation quite embarrassed me and I""m sure it did him.Men loathe that sort of thing.Oh come, don""t sulk.After all, I am responsible for your behavior here.Perhaps he didn""t notice it.Poor thing.I suppose he just can""t get over his wife""s death.They say he simplyadoredher.During lunch in the Princesse Hotel""s dining room, while Mrs.Van Hopper is ill in bed with a cold, the nervous young woman, who has just awkwardly tipped over a flower vase at her own able, is invited to dine with the older, debonair Mr.They""re all on the tab.And I""m gonna see ya, Tuesday payday, I swear on my mother.Not only on my mother, but Jesus Christ and...Okay?...Don""t worry, it ain""t gonna get out of hand.In another sequence (to the faint tune of "I Met Him On A Sunday" by the Shirelles), Michael and Tony ripped off (or "stiffed") two naive long-haired teenagers from Riverdale (New Jersey), by scamming them out of $20 for a purchase of fireworks.Two shots are fired.The fugitive and the policeman successfully jump across a gap onto a high-angled, red-tiled, Spanish style tenement roof, but the third man doesn""t make the jump and is left clinging and dangling from a weakened gutter drain pipe by his fingertips.