The Snake Pit Page #4

but there on the subway platform,

for the first time, she brought it up.

- I could hardly believe it.

- If I want to?

- I get three days off at the end

of the month. How'd that be?

- The end of the month?

You see? I was right. You're just trying to

put it off. You don't really want to marry me.

Virginia!

First thing next morning,

we got our license.

Three days later...it was the seventh

of May... we were married.

A couple of days after that, I worked late.

Virginia?

Virginia?

Virginia?

- Darling, what are you doing out here?

- I can't sleep, Robert.

I don't think I'll ever

be able to sleep.

Well, come on inside, darling.

You're gonna catch cold.

That was the first time

she really frightened me.

Even then, I didn't suspect anything.

But two days later...

You know, darling, I'm worried

about the way you haven't been sleeping.

Last night again, I saw you...

Virginia, darling, don't you think

you'd better see a doctor?

- It's such a beautiful day.

- Yes, but...

Almost too beautiful

for November.

- What do you mean, November?

Are you kidding?

- What do you think it is?

May. May 12.

- Where do you see that?

- Well, here. You can see for yourself.

It's an old newspaper.

Can't you see? It's torn.

- Virginia, what is it? That's

this morning's newspaper.

- It isn't. It can't be.

- Virginia, why don't you

get dressed? We'll see a doctor.

- Doctor?

Yes. My head hurts. Robert,

there's something the matter with my head!

- Come on, darling. Let me help you.

- Who are you?

- Why do you torture me? Why do you lie to me?

- Virginia, what's the matter?

- Don't you know me? I'm Robert...

your husband Robert!

- Let me go! Let me go!

- Virginia, what's the matter?

- Let me go. Don't touch me.

- Virginia, don't you know I love you?

- Love me?

No, you can't make me love you! You can't

make me belong to you! You can't!

- Virginia.!

- I can't love you! I can't love anybody!

I can't!

The rest you know, Doctor.

You've no idea what that day in May

might mean to your wife?

- She never told you

anything more of her family?

- Just that her father died...

when she was about six and then her mother

married again... recently moved to Oregon.

Tell me.

When did you last see her in Chicago?

- I'd say it was about the first week in May.

- Could it have been the 12th?

It might have been. Do you

think there's a connection there?

Possibly.

Mr. Cunningham, I'd like to

use shock treatment on your wife...

but you'll have

to sign this consent.

Shock treatment. Isn't it...

I mean, do you have to?

The only reason I want to use it is because in

many cases, it helps establish contact faster.

When that happens, we'll be able

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