Breaking the explicit company rule, they continue to date to combat mutual loneliness.He also maintains his feelings for the rich girl Angela, who often sits outside the factory in her open convertible and catches Alice""s jealous and nagging notice: "It""s better for you than running around with those Eastmans and their bunch and all those rich girls hat have nothing to do.We""ll measure them a measure and be gone.Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in, but every man betake him to his legs." After Romeo mentions a sleeping dream that he had, Mercutio delivers his fanciful, imaginative Queen Mab speech about "the fairies"" midwife," who knows about the waking and sleeping, troubling dreams of men."When he left for the men""s room, she revealed that she was a functioning alcoholic when she gulped down her first glass of Chardonnay while hurriedly ordering a second one from a startled waiter.While her husband is unaware of her presence, she overhears his advice:You know, I may not be king of my castle, but I certainly wouldn""t allow my wife to wear any pants.BackgroundThe Thin Man(1934) is the first installment of a popular series of six films casting a sophisticated, glamorous, pleasure-seeking, and urbane husband-wife detective team (William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles).