Were you disturbed by Brown leaving the French farm woman?

There's a mysterious scene that I do not understand why Roger Corman added to the story. It's completely out of place and has no bearing on the movie.

Canadian Flight Lieutenant Brown relaxes by motorcycling into the French countryside. Motoring up to a large, two-story French farmhouse, Brown stops to pick and eat a green apple. An attractive young French woman speaks to Brown from the second story window. For a change we get to see Brown act in other than a dour persona. He feels lucky to have chanced across a pretty lass, even though she can't speak English. Yet they both seem to get their ideas across and Brown is delighted to cajole the lass into coming downstairs to meet him. This is his lucky day, Brown hopes. But it is not to be. When Brown opens the half door to enter the house, he observes that the woman is missing a leg and is using a crutch. She is probably a victim of war violence. Immediately Brown is put off. But fortuitously for him, three British SE.5s drone overhead towards the airfield. Brown unconvincingly points to the planes and even more unconvincingly tells the woman that he has to return to the airfield. To the credit of the French woman, she probably knows what's going on but plays along and politely waves goodbye as Brown remounts his motorcycle and putters away, not bothering to return her goodbye wave.

Initially I was disturbed by Brown 'shining on' the woman. But I confess to all of you that I felt equally disturbed at my own hypocrisy. In my heart I know that I would have probably felt equally crushed and disappointed as Brown. More, I would have also begged off with some flimsy excuse. I know that I am not alone. Almost all other young guys would have done the same. Not all...mind you, some very polite guys may have remained for a while, but most of us would have left as did Brown. I think Roger Corman wanted to shed more light on LT Brown as being a hyper-practical man, ruthless in his utilitarianism where something was either valuable or useless. I don't know if that was the message he wanted to convey about Brown's regard for the maimed French woman. The sad truth - but it's the ugly truth - men typically want a whole, healthy, attractive woman. I've experienced something like Brown, many, many years ago, when an unattractive young woman expressed a deep interest in me. But I was put off, disappointed, and full of self-pity and anger that of all woman to fall for me it had to be an homely chick. Was I the bottom of the male barrel, I wondered, still in my own self-pity. So I politely declined the young lady. At least I was a gentleman about it. Sometimes we don't want the ugly side of something revealed back to our own faces.