<P> Leonora and Penderton have an argument that same night, in which Leonora taunts Penderton and strips naked in front of him . Williams watches them from outside the house, and from then on spies on them . He eventually breaks into the house and watches Leonora sleep at night . (She and Penderton have separate bedrooms .) As he continues this practice, Williams starts to go through Leonora's belongings, especially her lingerie and perfume . </P> <P> Penderton takes Leonora's horse and rides wildly into the woods, passing the naked Williams at high speed . Penderton falls off, catching his foot in the stirrup, and is dragged for a distance . In a fit of uncontrollable rage, he beats the horse . Williams appears still naked, and takes the horse . As Penderton stands mute in the woods, Williams brings the horse back to the stable to tend its wounds . Penderton returns to the house, locked in his room while the party goes on outside . Upon finding out about her horse, Leonora interrupts her party and in front of the guests repeatedly strikes her husband in the face with her riding crop . Penderton becomes infatuated with Williams and starts to follow him around the camp . </P> <P> After her newborn infant died, Alison Langdon mutilated herself while deeply depressed . Alison's only bonds now are with her effeminate Filipino houseboy Anacleto and with Capt . Murray Weincheck, a cultured and sensitive soldier who is being harassed out of the army by his superiors . Aware of her husband's adultery, Alison decides to divorce him . However, after witnessing Williams in Leonora's room, she becomes traumatized . When she tries to leave him, Langdon commits her to a sanatorium . Langdon tells Leonora and Penderton that Alison was going insane . Soon, Penderton is informed that Alison died of a heart attack, but she may have committed suicide, possibly assisted by Anacleto who disappears soon after her death . </P> <P> One night Penderton looks out his window and sees Williams outside the house . He thinks Williams is coming to see him, but watches the younger man enter his wife Leonora's room . Penderton goes to the room and shoots Williams dead . The film ends with the camera wildly veering back and forth among the dead body, the screaming Leonora, and Penderton . The opening line of the novel and the film is restated: "There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed ." </P>

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