And my dear, I don""t want you o be hurt.You see, we""re a happily married couple and let""s never forget that.This is my home.You""re my husband.And my children are upstairs in bed.I""m a happily married woman - or I was, rather, until a few weeks ago.This is my whole world, and it""s enough, or rather, it was until a few weeks ago.But, oh, Fred, I""ve been so foolish.I""ve fallen in love.I""m an ordinary woman.I didn""t hink such violent things could happen to ordinary people.In the tea room of the Milford Junction station (the junction for many suburban trains) after one of her weekly shopping rips (including going to the library for book exchanges, lunch and going to the movies - activities that provide imaginary, vicarious escapes for her into the lives of other middle-class women haunted by romantic encounters), she accidentally meets Dr.As she is given a sedative by a doctor to calm her down, she tells her guardians: "...I""ll be calm and relaxed, I-I""ll bow and I""ll smile and improve trade relations and I""ll..." In reality, she is determined to see Rome for herself and on her own erms.(Deception #1)To escape the endless tedium of the many ceremonial occasions, to find adventure and to daringly experience life beyond he endless tedium and claustrophobic confines of her royal position - without royal control, duties, escorts and chaperones - she slips out of imprisoning walls of the palatial Embassy that night.[Note: Both Marlon Brando and Albert Finney were also considered for the role.] The lead character is the heroic, contradictory, uncrowned King of Arabia - T.E.Lawrence - a solitary, masochistic adventurer (with confused sexuality, and hidden, repressed, and unrequited homosexual feelings for Sherif Ali) who paradoxically wanted to be both extraordinary and ordinary.Not too much shooting is actually accomplished.Elsa Mae observes: "Pa is drunk again!" but nevertheless, she goes over and demands a part in the picture.While her father looks on, a dignified Southern aristocrat gentleman named Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall), her half-breed mother entices a new lover (Sidney Blackmer) and ends the seductive movements of her exotic dance directly in front of both her husband and her lover.