- Dr. Konrad Styner: Our actual case history tonight concerns the field of medical jurisprudence. The object in point - a summons. The case in point - Maude Parrish. She's 46 years old, a housewife. For most of her adult life, she's lived quietly, submissively. She never complained, never rebelled, seldom asserted herself. For Maude Parrish, life was little more than a dull succession of days, a kind of monotony that somehow had to be tolerated. To her, it became a way of life. Then suddenly, unwillingly, she found herself a central figure in a situation of high drama. For the first time in her life, her words became important to others. But when they were needed most, those words would not come.