" Lydia is observed brimming with lust and rending her clothes in sexual frenzy after Sumner leaves.Stoneman""s sexual obsession with her is "the great leader""s weakness that is to blight a nation."Soon, the young Stonemans must leave and return North, Phil vowing his fidelity to Margaret "that his only dreams shall be of her till they meet again.He pried them away with his knife and was collecting them into his pouch.One fell on the sandy ground, transformed, and became activated as a wiggling, alive scarab beetle.It burrowed into his boot, climbed up his pants leg, and emerged as a burrowing lump under the skin of his fat belly.These circumstances will soon bring the wo main characters together and contrast their status in the social hierarchy.Judy Garland""s intense performance as the main character, probably he finest of her entire career, illuminated the film based upon Moss Hart""s screenplay.I thought you were very rude...If you insist on picking up stray women, that""s your own affair but from now on, don""t do it when you""re with me.