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From the Zapruder film to the Clint Eastwood film, the popular image of the Secret Service agent--stiff posture, of dark suit and shades, the walkie-talkies, the microphone in the sleeve--is one of laconic, unflappable, and self-abnegating cool.
This happens during the London blitzkrieg, and the German bombs both heighten the passion (all rules are suspended) and underscore the hopelessness: As Maurice becomes more possessive, Sarah begins the inexorable Graham Greene-ian drift into self-abnegating Catholicism.