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that if I'd had a baseball bat, I'd have clobbered her over the head. But Gene meekly went upstairs.

Now, as things got worse, Carlotta began going really insane. There was no question about the fact that her mind was now affected.

How old was she?

She was younger than Gene, but a fully mature woman. There was nothing girlish about Carlotta.

I meant she wasn't 80 or anything--

Oh, no. I would say at this time Gene was probably around 55, and she was about 48.

She had become obsessive about Gene. She owned him. He couldn't do anything without her in her opinion. Then they finally left San Francisco and moved to Boston. This was Carlotta's doing, and it was here when things began going from bad to worse. By this time he really saw nobody.

One night he sneaked out for some reason or other. When he came home it was snowing terribly, and just in front of the house Gene, who by this time was very frail, slipped in the snow and fell down and broke his leg. Carlotta came out and stood over him laughing at him while he lay in the snow with a broken leg. That's when they put her away. And Gene got double pneunomia.