a florid man comes up to the table, obviously anxious to catch hunsecker's attention. hunsecker, in the act of lighting, his own cigarette, scarcely looks at the man as he dismisses him:
as hunsecker stands up, sidney follows suit. the agent, very nervous, gets to his feet and the girl does likewise. the senator, whose face is sober, also rises from the table.
hunsecker wheels on sidney, bellowing:
framing hunsecker in foreground, susan and sidney beyond. susan listens to hunsecker objectively, with a mounting sense of his diseased reasoning.