He flushed and asked angrily: "You think she was fictionizing?"
"Not fictionizing, exactly. Observing a series of ordinary occurrences through the glamour of an active
imagination would be a better way of putting it."
He said, incredulously, "You don't realize that what she has written is an authentic, even though
unconscious, description of an amazing piece of hypnotism?"
"The possibility did occur to me," I answered tartly. "But I find no actual evidence to support it. I do
perceive, however, that Walters was not so well balanced as I had supposed her. I do find evidence that
she was surprisingly emotional; that in at least one of her visits to this Madame Mandilip she was plainly
overwrought and in an extreme state of nervous instability. I refer to her most indiscreet discussion of the
Peters case, after she had been warned by me, you will remember, to say nothing of it to anyone