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Sebastian had just died, I was ill,
but I did everything I could.
I said, "Send her straight home
with a nurse."
So they put her on the Berengaria...
...locked in her stateroom
like a wild animal.
She was taken straight to St. Mary's.
And now they can't keep her there,
they can't help her...
...or cope with her fits of violence.
Her babbling,
her dreadful obscene babbling.
-What kind of babbling?
-Fantastic delusions and babblings...
...of an unspeakable nature...
...mostly taking the form
of hideous attacks...
...on the moral character
of my son, Sebastian.
And now they tell me at St. Mary's...
...the mother superior tells me...
...that we must find
another place for her.
And then I read about you...
...about your operation,
and I thought:
"This may be the answer
to all our prayers."
You must realize
the operation I do...
...is only for the unapproachable,
for the hopeless.
If she isn't unapproachable
and hopeless, I don't know who is.
-The things she says.
-What?
-Terrible, obscene things.
-Such as?
Oh, anything.
Such as?
All right, you asked.
This happened recently at St. Mary's.
Catherine accused an elderly gardener
of making love to her.
They questioned the gardener,
an old man.
It was the other way around.
Catherine had made advances to him,
spoken obscenely to him.
When confronted with her lies,
she fought, she screamed.
It took four nuns to control her.
And now I'm put on notice that they
won't keep her there after this week.
You see why I said urgent.
Yes, I do. I certainly do.
It's important I see her
as soon as possible.
And help her because if you can't,
I'm at my wits' end.
I can transfer her to Lions View.
She won't be as comfortable...
I understand, I understand.
But the important thing
is you, doctor.
You'll be happy to know
that at this very minute...
...my lawyers are working on the
Sebastian Venable Memorial Foundation...
...to subsidize the work
of young people like yourself...
...who are pushing out
the frontiers of art and science...
...but have a financial problem.
Mrs. Venable, loving your niece
as you do, you must know...
...there's great risk
in this operation.
Whenever you enter the brain
with a foreign object...
...even a needle-thin knife...
...in the hands of
the most skilled surgeon...
...there still is
a great deal of risk.
But it does pacify them,
I've read that.
It quiets them down.
It suddenly makes them peaceful.
Yes, that it does do, but...
But what?
Well, it will be years before
we know if the immediate benefits...
...of the operation are lasting...
...or just passing or perhaps...
There's a strong possibility that
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