Then there were girls in another ward to have babies they didn't want. And some of the kind that keep after other girls, especially the young ones. Then there were younger ones across the hall, prostitutes mostly, with TB and epileptic fits. Crippled, blind, most of them dying, but even if what they had was catching, there was nowhere else to move them. Maybe you'd like to know what Helen will find there, not on visiting days. Rats? Why, my brother Jimmy and I used to play with the rats because we didn't have any toys. The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum, the State Alms House. It's the one way I can get back in touch with Helen, and I don't see how I can be rude to you again if you're not around to interfere with me.Īnd what's your plan if I say no? Pack the other half for home and abandon your charge to. Until she learns to listen to and depend on me.Ĭaptain Keller, it meets both of your conditions.
All these years you've felt so sorry for her you've kept her like a pet. Keller, I don't think Helen's greatest handicap is deafness or blindness. Like the lost lamb in the parable, I love her all the more. But she meant water! She knew what it meant at only six months old! I never saw a child so bright or outgoing! It's still in her, somewhere. She learns! Did you know she began talking when she was only six months old? She could say water. Miss Annie, I'm not agreed! She did fold her napkin. Yours, young lady! Isn't it obvious? You must convice me that there's the slightest hope of you teaching a child who now flees from you like the plague. To remain our employee! But on two conditions! I'm not accustomed to rudeness! If you want to stay, there must be a radical change of manner! I've decided to give you a second chance. Why do you wear them? The sun's been down over an hour. Miss Sullivan, I find it difficult to talk through those glasses.
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