In the ruins, he unearthed his mother""s pearls, Mischa""s remains in a metal bathtub, and Pot Watcher""s satchel with the dog-tags, just as Dortlich attempted to sneak up on him and kill him, but failed.]:After changing his clothes in his bedroom (without closing his door for privacy), Sidney leaves his office without his opcoat - to save money on checkroom tips (answering Sally""s reminder o not forget his coat with: "And leave a tip in every hat-check room in town?").Her telepathic prayer (something beyond the ordinary and mundane o get her family out of its "terrible rut" - whether murder or romance!) was magically answered by divine intervention and a God-like miracle: "He heard me! He heard me!" In a slow dissolve to the next scene, Charlie""s trusting, excited, expectant face is superimposed on the fast-approaching, horn-blowing advance of a dark locomotive with thrusting wheels - bringing her uncle closer.The major portion of the action of the film is theatrically-based and contained almost entirely on two small interior sets (a first for Griffith who had previously used exterior sets and location shooting almost exclusively) to emphasize the limits of space and time.