Marguerite: It""s a beautiful color.It should be a very good story.Armand: Yes it is, but it""s rather sad.She dies in the end.Marguerite: Well then, I""ll keep it but I won""t read it.I don""t like sad thoughts.However, we all die, so perhaps this will be sold again someday at an auction after my death.Armand: I thought you didn""t like sad thoughts.Marguerite: (defusing her melancholy) I don""t, but they come sometimes.At the party held in the mansion, the Bohemian guests feign formality while whispering dirty jokes and laughing boisterously around the dinner table, as they are served partridges.She has a fur draped over her left shoulder and part of it rests on her right arm.In a desperate and tense mood, Wonderly tells Spade that she is from New York and that her younger sister (Corinne) is missing...Kicking a herd of crawling coolies around, fighting fever, swallowing dust one month, wading in mud the next, just so some old woman can take her hot water bottle to bed with her?"Flirtations Between Denny and Vantine:Mac encouraged Denny to take advantage of Vantine""s presence, rather than making his usual journey o Saigon for an occasional fling:Mac: "Now, listen, Dennis, you""ve got your yearly case of nerves.Both revealed their concern when "Uncle Dave" asked: "Detective Foley, what""s going on at my park?" Foley learned that two weeks earlier, Roger Fry (the park""s chief operating officer and Dave""s personal friend) disappeared after leaving a cryptic note: "THIS IS IMPORTANT.She intrudes unexpectedly, garrulously dominating the conversation until it is time for Alec o abruptly part to catch his 5:40 train to Churley ("I go in he opposite direction").