Wouldn't it be better if you... if you... put her someplace?

Do you mean an institution? A madhouse? People always call a madhouse "someplace", don't they? "Put her in someplace."

I'm sorry. I didn't mean it to sound uncaring. I...

What do you know about caring? Have you ever seen the inside of one those places? The laughing and the tears, and the cruel eyes studying you. My mother in there? But she's harmless. She's as harmless as one of these stuffed birds.

I am sorry. I only felt... I...

You felt what?

It seems that she was... she's hurting you. I meant well.

People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and they shake their heads and they suggest, oh, so very delicately... [calms down] Of course, I've suggested it myself.