You are not I.
No one but me could possibly be.
I know that.
And I know where I have been...
And what I have done.
Ever since yesterday.
When I walked out the gate during the accident.
Of course!
This is just in man's world.
If something real should happen...
they would stop sinning
I always hated cars.
Hated to see them go by down there.
Hated to see them disappear way off up the valley,
toward the next town.
Made me angry to think...
all those people,
moving from one place to another.
Without any right to.
Whoever said to them...
You may go and drive your car this morning to Clifton.
You may drive wherever you want.
No one.
I know that.
I know there's no chief that says things like that to people.
But it makes it pleasanter for me.
When I imagine such person does exist.
Perhaps, it would be...
Only a tremendous voice.
Speaking over public address system set up in all the streets.
What are you doing? Are you crazy?
It's my sister and she's dead!
She's dead.
It seemed to me...
That life outside was like life inside.
There was always somebody to stop people from doing what they wanted to do.
That was just the opposite of what I'd felt when I was still inside.
Perhaps... What we want to do is wrong.
But why should they always be the ones to decide?
For once...
I will decide what was right.
And do it.
I managed to count the gas stations along the way.
And I found...
There was one more of them...
Than I remembered.
All they had asked me... was my address.
And I gave my sister's address.
Because it's only a half hour's drive.
Besides...
I stayed with her for quite a while before I went away.
But that was years ago.
I think.
The woman next to me, must have been a foreigner.
She was moaning like a baby.
And there was not a drop of blood on her that I could see.
Anywhere.
Are you sure she's all right?
They looked at her, all over at the hospital. It's just shock.
She'll be OK.
But...
- She don't look well yet to me. She'll be all right.
Just don't let her get excited.
Well.. That's what they... That's what they've always said.
She just does!
Lady, she ain't hurt at all.
Hurt?
I often feel...
that something is about to happen.
And when I do...
I stay perfectly still.
And let it go ahead.
There's no use wondering about it.
Or trying to stop it.
At this time,
I had no particular feeling
that a special event was about to come out.
But I did feel
that I would be more likely
to do the right thing
if I waited.
And let my sister act first.
By the way, I saw she had the whole thing rebuilt.
Only backwards.
There's always a living room.
And the kitchen.
And now it was on the left.
The back door...
was now at the right end of the porch.
She had even switched the stairs and fireplace around
into each other's places.
The furniture was the same.
But each piece had been put into the position
exactly opposite to the way it'd been before.
I decided to say nothing.
And let her do the explaining if she felt like it.
It occurred to me...
that it must have cost her every cent she had in the bank.
And still, it looked exactly the same as it had been when she began.
I kept my mouth shut.
But I could not help.
Looking around with a good deal of curiosity.
To see if she had carried out the reversal in every detail.
Sit down, Ethel.
I've got something to do.
I'll be right back.
I knew already where she was going.
She was afraid of me.
And she wanted Mrs Jelinek to come over.
Well, well, well...
They are supposed to keep her.
I don't know...
I thought so too but...
That man in... That man kept saying...
"She'll be all right."
- She looks just the same. - Sure!
I'm not going to put up with it any longer.
I'm going to tell Dr Don just what I think of him.
- Call him at home. - I surely will.
I'll go see if Kate's in. You stay here.
She meant Mrs Schultz
who lives on the other side and has a telephone.
I did not even look up when she went out.
I had made a big decision. And that was...
To stay right in the house
and, under no condition, let myself be taken back there.
I knew it would be difficult.
But I had a plan. I knew it would work
if I used all my will power.
I have great will power.
The first important thing to do...
was to go on keeping quiet.
Not to speak a word that might break the spell I was starting to work.
I knew I would have to concentrate deeply.
But that is easy for me.
I knew it was going to be a battle
between my sister and me.
But I was confident
that my force of character and superior education
had fitted me for just such a battle.
And that I could win it.
All I had to do...
was to keep insisting inside myself.
And things would happen the way I willed.
This way...
I would have what I wanted.
No one can stop you.
I thought.
- I called Dr Don. - But I can say that she was...
Well...
He told me to hold onto her by all means.
Because...
She wasn't discharged at all.
Somehow, got out.
Take it easy, Miss Ethel.
I knew she would give me no trouble.
Mrs Jelinek
and Mrs Schultz
will not go any further than my sister told them to.
And she herself was terrified of me.
For although I had never done her any harm,
she had always been convinced
that some day I would.
It may be.... that she knew now
what I was about to do to her.
But, I doubt it, or she would've run away from the house.
- When are they coming? - As soon as they can get here.
I see where they have rescued those flood victims.
Remember, the radio?
The house was very ugly.
But I was already getting ideas for making it look better.
I have excellent taste in decoration.
I tried not to think about those things.
And said over an over inside my head.
Make it work.
I could've laughed out loud.
When I thought of what they were really waiting to see.
If they had only known it.
Where is she?
Hello, hello!
To wonder you couldn't be more careful.
To make it out like that. How do you know what they're gonna do?
Do you want to come with us? Somebody wants to see you.
- Will you help me? - Ah, jeez.
I felt that my front teeth were broken.
I could taste blood on my lips.
I thought I was going to faint.
I put my hand to my mouth
and I knew...
that this was the turning point.
I shut my eyes very hard.
When I opened them
everything was different.
And I knew I had won.
For a moment, I could not see very clearly.
But even during that moment...
I saw myself
sitting on the sofa.
As my vision cleared
I saw that men were holding my sister's arms.
And she was putting up a terrific struggle.
My sister was yelling and screaming in the car.
But as they left the city limits, she stopped.
And began to cry.
All the same.
She was really counting the service stations along the road
on the way back to the home.
And she found there was one more of them than she thought.
When they came to the grade cross
near the spot where the accident had happened,
she looked out.
But the car was over the track
before she realized she was looking at the wrong side.
Driving through the gate, she really broke down.
They kept promising her ice-cream for dinner but she knew better than to believe them.
As she walked through the main door between two men,
she stopped on the threshold.
Took out one of the stones from her coat pocket
and put it into her mouth.
She tried to swallow it but it choked her.
And rushed her down the hall and made her give it up.
The strange thing, now that I think about it,
was that no one realized she was not I.
They put her to bed.
And by morning, she no longer felt like crying.
She was too tired.
It's the middle of the afternoon...
And raining torrents.
She's sitting on her bed.
The very one I used to have.
In the home.
Writing all this down on paper.
She never would have thought of doing that, up until yesterday.
But now she thinks she has become me.
And so she does everything I used to do.
The house is very quiet.
I am still in the living room.
Sitting on the sofa.
I could walk upstairs,
and look into her bedroom, if I wanted to.
But it is such a long time since I've been up there.
I no longer know how the rooms are arranged.
So I prefer to stay down here.
If I look up...
I can see the stair window of coloured glass.
Over the stairs, purple or orange.
An hourglass design.
Only the light never comes in very much,
as the house next door is so close.
Besides...
The rain is coming down hard here too.
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