The Full Treatment Page #6

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transferred to Regent 5001.

I'll put you through

this time.

Grazie.

Hello. It's very important

that I find Dr Prade.

This is Mrs Alan Colby.

You have found the doctor.

Comment a va, chre Denise?

Dr Prade? But I thought

you were in the south of France.

No. No, I'm here.

votre service.

Yes?

Give me the address,

I'll come right away.

No, no, no.

It's better that I come to you,

if you'll permit.

S.

A taxi will take you

ten, fifteen minutes.

All right.

Ma Vie, I'm afraid I will have

to interrupt your ecstasy.

You're very beautiful,

but even the very beautiful must

make way sometimes for the exquisite.

That's the rule of art.

That's the rule of life, Ma Vie.

And then... then he ran off.

No jacket, nothing.

I don't know.

I should call the police?

And say what?

No, he'll be back.

Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after.

Stop worrying and drink this, hmm?

But where's he gone?

Physically, it doesn't matter.

Mentally, he's gone

on a journey into himself.

Let me see your neck.

No, no. It's nothing.

But what should I do now?

Please tell me,

what do I do?

So you can ignore

my advice again?

But I didn't ignore

your advice.

I can't treat someone

by proxy, Denise.

I tried to send

him to you. I tried.

But not hard enough.

Ma Vie! Get down!

Do cats disturb you?

No, no.

They hate to be ignored or forgotten,

like many of us humans.

But how can I try harder?

You tell me how.

By giving complete

and absolute loyalty to me.

To you?

But I don't understand.

To help Alan, you must obey

my orders implicitly.

a va.

When he returns you will say

nothing about this meeting.

D'accord.

What you will tell him is that unless he

sees a psychiatrist, you will leave him.

S.

And if he refuses?

You leave him.

You're not serious.

Of course I'm serious. You asked how

to help and I'm telling you.

That's helping him?

To leave him alone with all this?

Good heavens, woman. Don't you realise

that you're living with a psychopath?

But I know that he's

a kind, gentle, person.

Who attacks his wife

with a wire stretcher.

Because he's sick.

Oh, yes, he's sick.

And after tonight, he has no hope

without a treatment.

Well, somehow he will

have treatment.

There are other

psychiatrists.

Hundreds of them, poor fellows.

All overworked like me.

Some of them even cut

their holidays if they are needed.

That's another kind

of loyalty.

Denise, get him

to any one of them.

But get him to one quick.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'll do as you say.

If you're worried, you know both my

numbers. I can be around in ten minutes.

If you'd feel safer, you could

even give me a key sometime.

But that's up to you.

- Merci. Merci beaucoup. Bonsoir, docteur Prade.

- Bonsoir, Denise.

Hello, Alan.

Denise.

I thought you'd left.

No, I hadn't left.

I went to see Dr...

Dr Roberts.

Of course.

Are you all right?

Yes, I'm all right.

I'm glad to see you back.

I just came back to say that

you needn't be afraid any more.

- I'm not afraid.

- I'm going to a hotel.

A hotel? Why a hotel?

I can't stay here.

Not after tonight.

Of course you can stay here.

Tesoro, what's happening to you?

I don't know.

I don't know.

What's going on in your mind?

Maybe I could help if you tell me.

Nobody can help.

To run away will help?

I'm running away because

I'm scared of myself,

because next time

it happens I might...

Might what, Alan? Dimmi.

No.

We must speak of these things.

- Because next time you'd what? Tell me.

- Denise...

You must speak it. It's not good in here.

In here it grows and grows.

You must say it.

Then I will. Because next time

you might kill me.

Why do you want

to kill me, Alan?

This is what I thought.

So now it's said, my darling,

we can talk it out, s?

I love you more than

I've ever loved anything, Denise...

- I know.

- ...but sometimes something happens.

I don't know. It doesn't make sense.

It just doesn't make sense.

Tesoro, we'll find someone

to make it sense.

Now if you love me all you say,

you'll come home.

Denise...

S?

What did Dr Roberts say?

Oh! He wasn't in.

All right,

I'll tell him in the morning.

Tell him everything.

Maybe you ought to tell

more than Dr Roberts, Alan.

Do you mean a psychiatrist?

Yes.

I don't believe in them, Denise.

They can't help if you don't believe.

niente.

A good one can help,

no matter.

Ma che fai?

No, no, Alan.

This is running away, too.

Well, let's see

what Roberts says.

Maybe he knows

a good psychiatrist.

But we already

know a good one.

Dr Prade.

Well, he's not

a stranger to all this.

He knows something

about it already.

Will you go to him, Alan?

Back to the south of France?

But he's returned.

He's in...

He's in London.

Well, at least

he should be.

He said he was flying back

the next day. Don't you remember?

No.

Please, Alan.

All right. If he's back,

I'll go and see him.

Oh, Alan.

Serve him right to get me.

You know what

puzzles me?

What?

How you can be

so beautiful and so sane.

Yes?

All right, send him up.

Come in.

Hello, Colby.

Er... I don't believe in all this

witch doctor stuff.

Let's get that

straight right away.

Of course you don't. That's why

you came here, just to tell me that.

Besides which, you dislike me.

Well, that could be a help.

Don't you want to sit down?

I just don't trust

psychiatrists.

I know. Crazy,

the lot of them.

Inhuman monsters with tangled minds

and perverted senses of humour.

Yeah, we know all that.

Don't you want

to sit down?

No. I've changed my mind.

What's wrong, Colby?

Coming here was wrong.

I'm sorry I wasted your time.

- Please send me your account.

- So you're running away again.

- I'm not running away.

- Oh, yes, you are.

It's quite a habit with you.

But you can't

run away from yourself.

And you can't

run away from me.

What do you mean by that?

You made this appointment.

I didn't. So part of you wanted to come.

And if you go now,

you'll take that part with you.

You can't get

rid of it, Colby.

You will have

to come back again.

So why don't you sit down

and have a cigarette?

I wouldn't be here if I hadn't felt

that this was the last chance.

I wouldn't be here if most

of my patients didn't feel the same.

What are you afraid of?

Something I might do.

What's that?

Murder my wife.

Could you?

Look, this is no joke.

Last night I nearly killed her.

- How?

- What's it matter how?

All right, then.

Why didn't you?

Well, she screamed

and then I...

Ran away?

Yeah.

Before you'd killed her.

You're not much good

as a murderer, are you?

Look, if you think

this is funny...

It may be. That's what

we've got to find out.

It's happened before,

hasn't it?

Yes. Denise told you

about that, didn't she?

Suppose you

tell me about it.

When I...

When I came out of hospital

I seemed all right.

Most of the time

I was all right.

And the other times?

When I held her,

whenever we had any physical contact,

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