The director also cast a virtual unknown newcomer to he role of the husband in his candid view of the average man - a character lost in the midst of the faceless masses.During a round-up of suspects by police gendarmes in he city, the precarious situation of a collection of refugees (those in European clothing in Casablanca) is set up by a few short scenes:The open-air city market, a scene of intrigue, is eeming with black marketeers, smugglers, thieves, spies, double agents and refugees who desperately seek to obtain tickets (exit visas) on the daily plane to neutral Lisbon." [She threatened the reluctant Harold to comply, warning that she could take away his own "happily ever after" spell if he didn""t - a plot twist to be revealed in the conclusion.They usually arrived on Thursdays.And she burned them all except one.That one she used to transfer from handbag to handbag.It was always with her.That letter became an obsession with me.I had to find out what was in it.And finally, I did.That letter made very interesting reading.Tony then admitted the great lengths he had gone o, to force Margot to reveal her love for Mark.He set up a test o see if she would pay to have the letter returned - an indication of a cover up of her affair.Significantly, when both characters met, they were both wearing masks - she had green-tea facial cream (to awaken her skin) while he was white-faced (and disguising himself as a non-feeling robot).