Just before her breakdown, because she went daily to the Christian Science rooms in order to avoid the family, they suspected her of immorality and accused her of going to meet other men. Even her husband began to question her motive. Retrospectively the patient herself said that she now felt she was losing her mind and did not wish to talk to any one. At the time she told her husband that she felt confused and as if she were guilty of something and being condemned. Repeatedly she said she knew she was going to get the family into a lot of trouble. Once she spoke of suicide, and for a while felt as if she were dying. Finally she became excited and shouted so much that she was taken to the _Observation Pavilion_, where she was described as being restless and noisy, thinking that she was to be burned up and that she had been in a fire and was afraid to go back. _On admission_ she looked weary and seemed drowsy. Questions had to be repeated impressively before replies could be obtained, when she would rouse herself out of this drowsy state. She seemed placid and apathetic. She said that nothing was the matter, but soon admitted that she had not been well, first saying that her trouble was physical and then agreeing that it had been mental. When asked whether she was happy or sad, she said “happy,” but gave objectively no evidence of elation. Her orientation was defective. She spoke of being in New York and on Blackwell’s Island, but could not describe what sort of place she was in, saying merely that it was “a good place,” or “a nice country place,” again “a good city.” Once when immediately after her name L. had been spoken and she was asked what the place was, she said “The L.” She knew that she had arrived in the hospital that day but said that she had come from Cleveland, and to further questions, that she had come by train, but she could not tell how she reached the Island. She claimed not to know what the month was and guessed that the season was either spring or autumn (August). She gave the year as 1917, called the doctor “a mentalist,” and the stenographer “a tapper,” or “a mental tapper.” She twice said she was single. When asked directly who took care of her, said “Mr. Marconi,” who she claimed at another time had brought her to the hospital. To the question, who is he? she replied, “Wireless,” and could not be made to explain further. That night she urinated in her bed, and later lay quite limp, again held her legs very tense.