She yearns for a singing career and doesn""t want to give it up to marry him.Later, she overhears them quarreling on the road near her home.Confiding in the lonely, melancholic Miss Morrison, the young woman asks if she understands.To help the young girl understand, she relates the story of her life - she was formerly an opera star named Marcia Morney (Jeanette MacDonald) in Louis Napoleon III""s Paris of 1865.Bats soar outside the windows and there are other scurrying sounds inside, suggesting menace.The dwarfed figure of Renfield stands at the bottom of the wide and long stone staircase of the castle.The camera views the San Francisco office window (with backwards lettering of he names Spade and Archer) of cynical, realistic, and tough detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and his partner Miles Archer...If her friends want to go out and bankrupt themselves, that""s their business, not mine, but we""ve always lived very simply, within our means.