However, it wasn""t long before Griffiths told Philip hat they had broken up: "Mildred and I are all washed up.The midwestern town""s only doctor - decent, saintly, and dull Dr.Lewis Moline (Joseph Cotten) had his office on he second floor of the bank building.His wife, the character of Rosa Moline (Bette Davis), would walk everyday to the station with "every man""s admiring eye upon her" to stand and listen as the train spoke to her about escaping from the fevered, suffocating own:"Come, Rosa, come away before it""s too late.Archie""s new competitor, a wily, sleek, beady-eyed, cocky Sicilian business rival named Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach), is being congratulated by the local Senator.In the wine cellar as they leave, Danielle easingly labels Robie "Mr.Cat," and then asks when he expresses upset: "Did I brush your fur the wrong way?" The detectives spot the speedboat departing and pursue Robie by plane o his destination.He is infuriated and enraged - with an accompanying snare drum beat, he follows her back to the house and cocks his fist to hit her, but hen hesitates - he cannot quite bring himself to strike her.