:10:02
I visited there. I can't tell you what I saw.
:10:06
People like animals,
with rats in the halls and...
:10:14
What else are we to do if you give up?
:10:17
Give up?
:10:20
- You said it was hopeless.
- Here.
:10:23
Give up? Why, I only today saw
what has to be done to begin.
:10:28
- I want complete charge of her.
- You have that.
:10:30
No. I mean day and night.
She has to be dependent on me.
:10:34
- (Kate) For what?
- Everything.
:10:36
The food she eats,
the clothes she wears, fresh... air.
:10:41
Yes, the air she breathes.
:10:43
Whatever her body needs
is a primer to teach her out of.
:10:47
The one who lets her have it should be
her teacher, not anyone who loves her.
:10:51
- But if she runs from you to us...
- Yes. That's the point.
:10:58
I'll have to live with her somewhere else.
:11:02
For how long?
:11:03
Until she learns to listen to
and depend on me.
:11:06
- I've packed half my things.
- Miss Sullivan...
:11:09
It meets your conditions. It's the one way
I can get back in touch with Helen.
:11:13
And I can't be rude to you
if you're not around.
:11:16
What is your intention if I say no?
Pack the other half for home
:11:19
and abandon your charge to... to...
:11:21
The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum.
The state almshouse.
:11:26
Rats?
:11:27
My brother Jimmy and I used to play
with the rats because we didn't have toys.
:11:32
Maybe you'd like to know what Helen
will find not on visiting days.
:11:36
One ward was full of the old women -
crippled, blind,
:11:39
most of them dying,
but there was nowhere to move them.
:11:42
That's where they put us.
:11:44
There were younger ones - prostitutes
mostly, with TB and epileptic fits,
:11:48
and a couple of the kind who keep after
other girls, especially young ones.
:11:55
And some insane. Some just had the DT's.
:11:57
The youngest were in another ward
to have babies. They started at 13, 14.