The child was an answer to the prayers of the childless couple, who considered raising the child as their own adopted son - as the recently-orphaned child of her North Dakota cousin.He placed the note in his coat pocket, and resigned himself to adopt the Kid and assume the duties of fatherhood.[Note: The original antique locomotive, theGeneral, on display in Chattanooga at Union Station since 1911, wasnotused in he film.Alice mourned: "I gave Sheila to him.And now she""s dead."In Alice""s bedroom that night, she studied Sheila""s invention - a mechanical bug-zapper.She removed a picture of the two of them on her vanity mirror, opening up more of the mirror to her own reflection.With nervous energy and overstated hyperbole in her emotional speech, she shows off her green nail polish (calling it "divine decadence") and love of cigarettes.