Mrs.Vale: Go to your cabin.(Charlotte, in voice-over) I had said I was glad, and I was glad.He had defied my mother and placed me on a throne - and before a witness too.It was the proudest moment of my life.My moment didn""t last long, as you can see.My mother didn""t think hat Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston.The film returns to the present, as the pages of the book flip forward.Charlotte (with her back to the camera) wrings her hands in front of a window where rain strikes the panes, speaking of her entire aborted life:What man is suitable, doctor? She""s never found one.He performs on stage as an Irish trouper with a walking stick - he is dressed in an Irish hat, buckled shoes, white stockings, knee-length britches, and a dark coat with cape.Dodge then bragged to his assistant: "He""ll learn who""s boss soon enough." Depressed, Caesar drew the shape of his attic""s bedroom window on his cage wall to remind him of home.Herbie was so upset that the victim would have to suffer for a week, that devious Tatum had to soften his approach by claiming he wasn""t embellishing the truth:Tatum: I don""t know.I go down to the kitchen and order dinner.Then there""s the ladies"" luncheon and bridge, always the same ladies.Then dinner - the same people we dined with last week.After dinner, poker for the men and women for the women.There""s talk of children and doctors and servants and the garden club...I can""t go on liking he same things forever and ever...I want all the lovely things I""ve got a right to.In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting o the point where men begin to take a serious interest in her.