Tira is sick and tired of the show: "I""ve got about as much privacy around here as a goldfish." Then, she notices his slick new haircut: "What did you do? Did you get your hair cut or have your ears moved down?" He appears jealous when she is brought a note from an admirer.Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher.The husband finds that the snake-like hose is kinked and wrapped around some of the shrubbery, causing the hose faucet spigot to hiss loudly and leak water under the increased pressure.The housekeeper divulges Deeds"" bachelorhood and that he is "too fussy" o get married, because of a particular weakness: "He""s got a lot of foolish notions about saving a lady in distress.