The Mad Room

Mandy Hardy: I have to talk with you, Ellen.

Ellen Hardy: Sure. Where's George?

Mandy Hardy: I don't know, but I've got to talk to you.

Ellen Hardy: What is it?

Mandy Hardy: George and I are going to need a Mad Room. We need a place to think; a place to work things out.

Ellen Hardy: Well, you have your rooms.

Mandy Hardy: No.It doesn't work that way. When I get tight inside, I need to go some place. Alone. Well, don't you feel pressure, Ellen?

Ellen Hardy: Of course I do.

Mandy Hardy: Then what do you do?

Ellen Hardy: Well, I try to keep busy, take my mind off of it.

Mandy Hardy: Well, some people take long walks.

Ellen Hardy: I try not to live within myself, Mandy.

Mandy Hardy: We've got to have a room, Ellen. That's what we're accustomed to. We get steamed and we need some place to let it out.

Ellen Hardy: I wish there was some place, er... oh, there's the basement.

Mandy Hardy: No. It won't work. Not for me. It's a hang up.

Ellen Hardy: Why?

Mandy Hardy: One of the punishments at the Institution was to be sent to the basement.