“Most assuredly you have. You know very well I did not give you that piece of crochet work. How, then, does it come into your hands?”
“I did not pick it up.”
“Who did, then?”
“Somebody else—somebody acting in me.”
A little later arose another complication. She refused to eat, and it became necessary to administer food to her forcibly. She kept saying to herself:
“You must die, you must die as soon as possible. You must not eat, you have no need of eating. You must not speak, you have no voice, you are paralyzed.”
“Why do you say this?” Doctor Janet one day asked her.
“Why do I say what?”
He repeated her words.
“But I have said nothing of the sort.”