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.Opening Framing Device:A Holy Man (or Imam) (Charles Belcher) was seated in front of a young boy.He was stirring a steaming pot next to him, and then pointed into the starry sky of the night desert to emphasize an inscription written there - with the platitude:HAPPINESS MUST BE EARNEDThis was followed by a quotation allegedly from the Koran:Praise be to Allah - the Beneficent King - The Creator of the Universe - Lord of the Three Worlds!The KoranAlso, there was a quotation from the Introduction to he Arabian Nights:Verily the works of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what admonishing chances befel other folk and may there-from take warning.While being kissed as they lie on the grass, the seductress tempts him, visualizing for him how to murder his wife:Woman: Tell me.Her father is a widower defense lawyer, spectacled Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), who is struggling to raise his two children - "Scout" and ten-year-old son Jem (13 year-old Phillip Alford in his film debut) - after his wife died four years earlier.