He flies to Beirut for a few days after seeing Joey's hostility toward Nanny fail to subside. Later, Joey appears at Bobbie's window dripping wet and claims that Nanny tried to drown him.īill is a Queen's Messenger who is frequently away on business. She is aghast when she sees the floating doll because it reminds her of finding Susy after she drowned in the bath. Joey persuades Bobbie Medman, the 14-year-old daughter of a doctor living in the flat above, to witness a cruel prank: he places a doll face down in the bathtub, opens the tap, and persuades Nanny to turn the spigot off. Eventually, she realizes that Joey knows that she accidentally caused Susy's death. Joey witnesses this but Nanny does not see him. Her mind snaps and she bathes the girl's lifeless body. When she returns to the bathroom, she finds Susy floating face down in the water. Unable to summon Susy for her bath, Nanny searches for her. Nanny enters the bathroom and absentmindedly turns on the tap by reaching through the closed shower curtain without looking inside. She tries to retrieve it by reaching behind the shower curtain but falls into the tub. She goes into the bathroom to play and accidentally drops her doll in the bath. She wants to play with him, but he tells her to go away. Susy threatens to tell their parents on Joey for being disobedient because he is not supposed to. Joey is playing by himself with his father's model railway. In a flashback, Nanny leaves the house for an appointment. Nanny comforts Virginia as she did when she cared for her and her sister Pen when they were children. Joey's rude behavior upsets his neurotic mother, Virginia, who is prone to melancholy and crying spells, still grieving the death of Susy. He abandons the room Nanny has decorated for him and moves to one with a strong lock on its door. When Joey returns home, he refuses to eat the meals Nanny prepares because he suspects she may poison him. This extends to the family's nanny, whom Joey distrusts and disrespects. The school's headmaster informs Joey's father, Bill, that his son harbors an intense dislike of middle-aged women. Joey spends two years at a school for emotionally disturbed children after being blamed for drowning his younger sister Susy.
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