Vivian Sternwood Rutledge You can stop worrying and call off the bloodhounds. We found Sean....he's been in Mexico. He hasn't been very well...an accident of some kind. We didn't get all the details. I'm leaving at once to meet him...We haven't told him [the General] yet. We thought it best to wait. Joe Brody Well, I tapped the old man once six or seven months ago. I figured it might not work twice...Well, she [Vivian] gets around. I figured she might have a thing or two she wouldn't want the old man to know. Sternwood If I did, she'd just suck her thumb and look coy. Marlowe I met her in the hall and she did that to me. Then she tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.