Bannister home.I told myself I couldn""t leave a helpless man lying unconscious in a saloon.Well, it was me that was unconscious.And he was exactly as helpless as a sleeping rattlesnake.Michael""s arrival at the yacht is introduced by the yapping of Elsa""s pet dachshund, and a view of a glum-faced Elsa dressed as a calendar-girl - she wears a yachtman""s suit and cap with white shorts.She reacts to the sad news, not seeing much future for a young, attractive widow and not feeling any grief...it is the moment when our artist has regressed to the point of infinity, and himself becomes part of the landscape he painted, and is both the observer and the observed.Three Months LaterIn the next scene, three months later on Christmas Eve in a fancy restaurant, Dorothy danced with her fiancee Tommy and expressed how worried she was that she hadn""t heard from her father, who had promised he would return by then.At the time of the film""s release, it was not a box-office hit, but has since been regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.