desirable model. She asks her to pose-still no compulsion and a natural request-and Walters does pose
for her. The woman has her technique, like all artists, and part of it is to make skeletons for the
framework of her dolls. A natural and intelligent procedure. The sight of the skeleton suggests death to
Walters, and the suggestion of death brings up the image of Peters which has been powerfully impressed
upon her imagination. She becomes momentarily hysterical-again evidence of her overwrought
condition. She takes tea with the doll-maker and is accidentally scalded. Naturally this arouses the
solicitude of her hostess and she dresses the scald with some unguent in whose efficacy she believes. And
that is all. Where in this entirely commonplace sequence of events is there evidence that Walters was
hypnotized? Finally, assuming that she was hypnotized, what evidence is there of motive?"
"She herself gave it," he said, "'to make a doll of you, my dear!'"