He also was incredulous about her demands to be with him as a low-rent female, when he had the select pick of any Chicago society girl:Rosa: "What as? A telephone girl? A stenographer, a waitress? You could get me out!"Latimer: "Sure I could, but why should I?"Rosa: "Because I'm the kind of woman you need!"Latimer: "Rosa, you're a scream.In the cafe, Jerry is introduced to Henri, Adam's friend.Jerry struggles to sell his paintings in Montmartre.His first potential customer is appalled by the lack of perspective in his paintings, and he tells her to move on.The persistent maid threatens to tell Gregory and incur his wrath, causing her further paranoia and preventing her from leaving.Anticipating that she was going to leave him, he had seriously considered killing her lover, but then reconsidered and decided it would be better to kill her instead, before she took off with her wealth:I began to wonder what would happen if she left me.The thriller ended with these final lines of dialogue, as the two looked at a map on the deck:Shearing: "Are we lost?"Cross: "No.