It's all right.It's my dog.And uh, my wife.Nora: Well, you might have mentioned me first on the billing.Nick: The dog's well-trained.He'll behave himself.Dorothy and Tommy were introduced to Nora before they left.Nick invited them to look them up again, since they were going o be in town for a while.They had come to New York from California (where they had lived for four years) for the Christmas holidays o celebrate their newly-wedded bliss with drinking, partying, sleeping late, and shopping.When he tempted her with wearing the clawed glove ("Go ahead, put it on, it's in your blood...That's it, put it on.Feels good, doesn't it? Yeah, come on.Let your Daddy show you how to use it"), she obliged and then stabbed him deeply in the stomach with it.It is a Victorian house, with one pointed tower and a noisy wind generator atop.A flagpole displays the Texas Lone Star State flag.An expensive open convertible is parked in front.The unnamed owner (Sam Shepard) bites into an apple as he observes the newcomers arriving.[One could read this story as a symbolic tale of Eden like the early chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis, with its prototypical Adam and Eve characters, the natural bounty of God's generous gifts, the biting of the apple, emptation, sin, and subsequent banishment from 'heaven' by the coming of a fiery 'hell.The surly warden had no concern for Vince's claim that he hadn't received his mail: "Now get out and don't come back.The film's title referred to a type of specially-cultivated, expensive, strong-smelling rose hybrid in the US that was beautiful to look at, but often was subject to fungus rot, mildew, black spots and decay in its underlying roots deep below.