" A drifter, Shane replies enigmatically:One place or another.Some place I""ve never been.He steals a glance at Marion.Joe explains that the only way he will be taken off his beloved land where they have now planted roots is "in a pine box." Amanda asks her dictation secretary Grace (Eve March) about the double standard:Amanda: What do you think of a man who is unfaithful o his wife?Grace: Not nice, but.To the snobby, intolerant Higgins, ignorance, inarticulateness, dialects and unrefined language produce a "verbal class distinction," much he same way as money ensures advantages and a higher class of living, in "Why Can""t the English Learn to Speak":Look at her, a prisoner of the guttersCondemned by every syllable she uttersBy right she should be taken out and hung,For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.Actually, there was a brief mention in the script comparing the Judge in the case to Pilate: "You""re a regular Pontius Pilate the minute you start.