ABSTRACT
On Monday 15 May, I had heard a report from Mrs Brown that Susan had been much better lately, but when she arrives she is again very paranoid about Mr X, again insisting that he broke up the marriage deliberately in order to ‘bitch her up’. Soon I accidentally drop my matchbox; she goes crimson and then says she wishes I had not made that noise – it made her jump. This is the first mention of the return of her startle reflex, which had apparently, so she said, quite disappeared since the ‘shock’ therapy. She says the noise reminds her of an accident outside their house at home with a scream of brakes, though she did not see it, but her mother was sure the rag-and-bone man’s wife was dead.
