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Chapter fifteen of Ten Days in a Mad-House, "Incidents of Asylum Life". A girl who tells Bly every morning she dreamed of her mother and thinks she'll be taken home today, four years in. Visitors who hear Mattie Morgan play, are whispered "she's a patient", and back away from her. Of the city lights across the water Bly writes that it seems so near, "and yet heaven is not further from hell". Not rating yet.