: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.
:12:01
They'd leave,
but we played with the babies,
:12:04
though a lot had sores from diseases
you're not supposed to talk about.
:12:08
But not many of them lived.
:12:10
The first year we had 80. 70 died.
:12:13
Jimmy and I played in the dead-house
where they kept the bodies.
:12:16
- Oh, my dear...
- No. It made me strong.
:12:24
But I don't think you need send
Helen there. She's strong enough.
:12:30
Miss Annie.
:12:34
Yes?
:12:37
Where would you take Helen?
:12:42
Well...
:12:45
- Italy?
- What?
:12:49
Can't have everything.
How would your little house do?
:12:55
Bring Helen there after a long ride
so she won't recognise it.
:12:58
You can see her every day
if she doesn't know.