La bambola di pezza

Edward Shelley: Is she still having those nightmares you wrote us about?

Sister René: Always vivid, horrid nightmares. Perhaps if you would have been able to visit her, even to write more often.

Edward Shelley: Yes, but, uh, we've, uh,, we've been travelling a great deal since.

Sister René: I'm sorry, that was unkind of me. But there are times that the phantoms of the past tear at that poor child's mind. There are times when she seems on the verge of...

Edward Shelley: [anticipating] Remembering?

Sister René: Oh, heaven forbid she remembers! No, God in his mercy saw fit to make her forget.