First, we treat the physical ailments. Her previous doctor diagnosed chronic melancholia, a hysterical malady common in women. Her bodily humours are ...ut of harmony. Matron will see to that, with purges and clysters. I'll tell Matron to try to fatten her up a bit, and see that she gets plenty of exercise. The moral component is more difficult to reach, but there are many well known treatments, to focus her mental processes on that which is good. The standard treatments, whippings, cold water. They should have closed this North End branch instead of the South Boston branch, he thought. I should be there instead of here. Michael noticed details about people. He thought it odd that her hands were not as old looking as her face. He took pride in the fact that he could describe anyone who he had seen in the street, even if he had only seen them for a few seconds. He treated his recall for detail as a game that he played with himself. His mother said of him that he should have been a. She thought suddenly, happily, of Mavis's small breasts, and her own. Stevie Archer's were in between, smaller, but only a little, than Laura's, but not as small as Mavis's. I'd love to compare them, Laura thought, letting her eyes caress the smooth, velvet black skin of Stevie's bare shoulders. Maybe Rhonda had good reason to be worried about me.Stevie looked around the room and the crowd impatiently. "Can't we get the fuck out of here?" she asked querulously. "I only came as a favor to. . I laughed saying it will be just like yesterday with an extra dose of fun, which made Alice giggle.. At this Monica relaxed and we all went up to my apartment. In the lift on the way up - I sternly said to both ladies that clothes would shortly be forbidden - both giggling at that. I had done shopping the day before - so I would be cooking meals - no need for anyone to go anywhere for anything.Arriving in my apartment - Monica was first to get undressed, closely followed by Alice with me.