To my astonishment, the patient remarked that the interpretation corresponded closely to the plot of a play which he had seen on the evening before at the theatre. The play was called _Round about Vienna_, and treated of the career of a girl who is respectable at first but later goes over to the _demi-monde_, who has affairs with persons in high places, thus “climbing,” but finally “goes down” faster and faster. This play had reminded him of another entitled _From Step to Step_, in the advertisement of which had appeared a _stairway_ consisting of several steps. Now to continue the interpretation. The actress with whom he had had his most recent affair, a complicated one, had lived in X-street. There is no inn in this street. However, while he was spending a part of the summer in Vienna for the sake of the lady, he had lodged (German _abgestiegen_ = stopped, literally _stepped off_) at a little hotel in the neighbourhood. As he was leaving the hotel he said to the cab-driver, “I am glad I didn’t get any vermin anyway” (which incidentally is one of his phobias). Whereupon the cab-driver answered: “How could anybody stop there! It isn’t a hotel at all, it’s really nothing but a _road-house_!” The road-house immediately suggests to the dreamer’s recollection a quotation: “Of that marvellous host I was once a guest.” But the host in the poem by Uhland is an apple tree. Now a second quotation continues the train of thought: FAUST (_dancing with the young witch_). “A lovely dream once came to me; I then beheld an apple tree, And there two fairest apples shone: They lured me so, I climbed thereon.” THE FAIR ONE. “Apples have been desired by you, Since first in Paradise they grew; And I am moved with joy to know That such within my garden grow.” _Translated by_ BAYARD TAYLOR. There remains not the slightest doubt what is meant by the apple tree and the apples. A beautiful bosom stood high among the charms with which the actress had bewitched our dreamer. According to the connections of the analysis we had every reason to assume that the dream went back to an impression from childhood. In this case it must have reference to the nurse of the patient, who is now a man of nearly fifty years of age. The bosom of the nurse is in reality a road-house for the child. The nurse as well as Daudet’s Sappho appears as an allusion to his abandoned sweetheart.