While knocking repeatedly, she teases him.As her hair is being pinned up by her black maid-servant Zette (Theresa Harris), she deliberately stalls answering to him.And Hitchcock also chose Oscar-winning Eva Marie Saint as the blonde heroine (to he studio""s and Grant""s surprise) - one of many such female characters in his film repertoire.Legendary European director Max Ophuls"" deeply-moving, imeless film is considered his greatest and most successful American film but a film unlike most Hollywood films.The porter and the couple aid the ailing man to dismount from the train and limp onto the platform.As the train departs, Charles stands up straighter, miraculously recovers his health, and smiles while walking toward Charlie - they both approach each other in similar fashions with jaunty, almost-erotic strides and meet to embrace in a profiled camera angle as mirror-images (he wraps his walking cane around her).He reluctantly refused he transfer request to avoid being accused of special privileges, although Keefer noted: "You""ll live to regret this day.