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- I've packed half my things.
- Miss Sullivan...
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It meets your conditions. It's the one way
I can get back in touch with Helen.
:57:07
And I can't be rude to you
if you're not around.
:57:10
What is your intention if I say no?
Pack the other half for home
:57:13
and abandon your charge to... to...
:57:15
The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum.
The state almshouse.
:57:20
Rats?
:57:21
My brother Jimmy and I used to play
with the rats because we didn't have toys.
:57:27
Maybe you'd like to know what Helen
will find not on visiting days.
:57:30
One ward was full of the old women -
crippled, blind,
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most of them dying,
but there was nowhere to move them.
:57:36
That's where they put us.
:57:39
There were younger ones - prostitutes
mostly, with TB and epileptic fits,
:57:43
and a couple of the kind who keep after
other girls, especially young ones.
:57:49
And some insane. Some just had the DT's.
:57:51
The youngest were in another ward
to have babies. They started at 13, 14.
:57:56
They'd leave,
but we played with the babies,
:57:58
though a lot had sores from diseases
you're not supposed to talk about.
:58:02
But not many of them lived.
:58:04
The first year we had 80. 70 died.
:58:07
Jimmy and I played in the dead-house
where they kept the bodies.
:58:11
- Oh, my dear...
- No. It made me strong.
:58:19
But I don't think you need send
Helen there. She's strong enough.
:58:24
Miss Annie.
:58:29
Yes?
:58:31
Where would you take Helen?
:58:37
Well...
:58:39
- Italy?
- What?
:58:44
Can't have everything.
How would your little house do?
:58:49
Bring Helen there after a long ride
so she won't recognise it.
:58:53
You can see her every day
if she doesn't know.
:58:59
Well?