"Sure," said Baird, "that's one of your patents." Yet he still wished the little sister had not been made to marry the cross-eyed hotel clerk.
And another detail lingered in his memory to bother him.

The actress playing his mother was wont to smoke cigarettes when not engaged in acting.

He had long known it.

But he now seemed to recall, in that touching last scene of reconciliation, that she had smoked one while the camera actually turned.

He hoped this was not so.