Suddenly, Last Summer
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Visions, hallucinations.
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It all started last summer.
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The first I knew, there was a cable
from this clinic in Paris...

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...saying, "Your niece is out
of her mind. What shall we do?"

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I was almost out of my mind
last summer.

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Sebastian had just died, I was ill,
but I did everything I could.

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I said, "Send her straight home
with a nurse."

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So they put her on the Berengaria...
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...locked in her stateroom
like a wild animal.

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She was taken straight to St. Mary's.
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And now they can't keep her there,
they can't help her...

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...or cope with her fits of violence.
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Her babbling.
Her dreadful, obscene babbling.

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- What kind of babbling?
- Fantastic delusions and babblings...

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...of an unspeakable nature.
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Mostly taking the form
of hideous attacks...

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...on the moral character
of my son, Sebastian.

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And now they tell me at St. Mary's...
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...the Mother Superior tells me...
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...that we must find
another place for her.

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And then I read about you...
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...about your operation,
and I thought:

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"This may be the answer
to all our prayers."

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You must realize
the operation I do...

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...is only for the unapproachable,
for the hopeless.

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If she isn't unapproachable
and hopeless, I don't know who is.

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- The things she says.
- What?

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- Terrible, obscene things.
- Such as?

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Oh, anything.
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Such as?
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All right, you asked.
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This happened recently at St. Mary's.
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Catherine accused an elderly gardener
of making love to her.

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They questioned the gardener,
an old man.

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It was the other way around.
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Catherine had made advances to him,
spoken obscenely to him.

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When confronted with her lies,
she fought and screamed.

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It took four nuns to control her.
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Now I'm put on notice that they
won't keep her there after this week.

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You see why I said urgent.
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Yes, I do. I certainly do.
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It's important I see her
as soon as possible.

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And help her. If you can't,
I'm at my wits' end.


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