At the store after graduation, Marvin (who had been promoted to financial accountant) was faced with comments from his new step-father Sock Fisher and his son Jake Fisher (William LeMaire) about his new allegiance: ("So, you""re Norwood""s man now, ain""t you? Bought body and soul and educated by him").[Director Hitchcock appears in his traditional cameo on the sidewalk outside Elster""s Mission District shipyard company - he walks left to right across the frame, carrying a black trumpet horn case that looks like an oversized flashlight.The next day, Bud has inevitably caught an awful cold.He arrives at the office with sniffles and a box of tissues under his arm and rides the express elevator to his floor.Armand: Well, I knew there were so many others.Marguerite: There were no others, none, during all those weeks the doctors thought I might die.Armand: Not even Baron de Varville?Marguerite: Baron de Varville chose to be in England at the time.No, you were the only one that took the trouble to ring my bell.Armand: But now...Marguerite: Oh, now I""m well again, and all goes merrily.Undaunted by her own weakness and poor health, she invites Armand to her birthday "supper" party to be held he next evening after the theatre:I""m afraid of nothing except being bored.