I wanted to come home very fast and see what help I could be, you know especially with Charlie Parker. When I did arrive my brother happened to see him coming out of the hospital with sneakers on. My brother Jerry Burley called me from Harlem Hospital and said, "Mary, I just saw Charlie Parker and it's below zero. Have you got any money or anything you can do to help him? "I said, well, tell him to come by the house. He had Charlie Parker to talk with me and Charlie Parker promised to come up the next day or so. That's the day that he was on the way to the Baroness. He went to her place instead. I thought maybe if I came home there was something I could do about talking or doing something with the musicians, or helping.