In a case of mistaken identity while looking through her own opera glasses, Marguerite views a different, more handsome, young, naive bachelor Armand Duval (Robert Taylor) - she remarks delightedly and amusedly: "I didn""t know that rich men ever looked like that.With his back to the camera, he is followed down the aisle to his seat.The on-stage, vaudeville show at the London Palladium features Mr.Memory (Wylie Watson), a memory expert who is introduced by the Master of Ceremonies [Mr.Memory""s character was based upon the real-life performer Datas]:Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention and permission, I have the honor of presenting to you one of the most remarkable men in the world.Protesting hat she hardly knows him well enough to be married, she resolves o leave and spend a holiday week by herself at Lake Como to gather her thoughts ("just to know what I""m doing, just to be sure").Humbert fires again and again as Quilty flees across the room oward the curving stairs.At the top of the grand staircase, Quilty is hit and wounded in the right leg, and he crumples down, but he continues to playfully banter with his assassin, suggesting unsually degenerate forms of entertainment - attendance at executions and voyeurism.When he opened the box, he found $100,000 cash in various currencies, credit cards, airline tickets, six passports with different names/nationalities (and his picture on all of them), various devices/tools, and a 9 mm Sig-Sauer pistol.