Then something clicked in Maria's mind, and she understood why the women on the bus moved as if they were on the bottom of an aquarium. They were in fact, sedated with tranquilizers, and tht dark palace with the thick stone walls and frozen stairways was really a hospital for female mental patients.
"I just came to use the phone," she said.
palace with the thick stone walls and frozen stairways was really a hospital for female mental patients.
"I just came to use the phone," she said.