Alone with his girlfriend Diane (Susan Egbert) in the kitchen, Jeff bemused about changing people""s tastes and dreams:I did a thing about suicides of the American Indian.Is that what you""re trying to achieve?...Dr.Jaquith has a sanitarium in Vermont, I believe.Probably one of those places with a high-wire fence and yowling inmates...The very word ""psychiatry,"" Dr.Jaquith, doesn""t it fill you with shame, my daughter, a member of our family?...The kindly and wise Dr.Jaquith explains how he guides and helps confused people to find their way with ""signposts."" However, Charlotte""s bulging eyes dart around as she tries to avoid her mother""s gaze.Unable to endure any more torture, she rises and leaves the room heading up the stairs.To speak to the disturbed woman in private, Dr.Jaquith follows her up to her retreat - a third floor locked room, while commenting upon the Bostonian homes that reflect the personalities of their proud, stuffy and resistant owners:Dr.In the living room, the unidentified figure impaled Chili in the stomach with a sizzling, red-hot fire poker(# 10 death), frying her skin where it penetrated.It featured many lines of witty dialogue and set up an appealing story structure, but was mostly not laugh-out-loud comedy.