Part 9 (1/2)

I explained that a big thing like that cannot be forgotten, but pointed out that in a case like that the tendency is to forget little things in connection with the big pain I told him of a case I had myself known

A lady of ow; then she h, where she lived for almost thirty years Now she lives in London When she talks of her old hoow” Invariably she makes this mistake The reason is alh she lost the one she loved ow” because the word Edinburgh would at once bring back the painful memories connected with her loved one's death

When I was teaching in Hampstead one of my pupils, a boy of sixteen, came toto forget things,” he said

”I went and left -stick in a bus yesterday”

”Were you tired of it?” I asked

”Tired of it?” he said indignantly ”Why, it was a beauty, a silver-topped cane, got it fro”

”Tellto a match at lord's, and it looked rather dull, soto rain, and took ot on the top of a bus when down came the rain in bucketfuls and I tell you I et to the skin”

”So you did mean to leave your cane behind?” I asked, with a smile

”But I tell you I didn't!”

”You did, all the same You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your amp You deliberately left your cane behind you because it had proved useless”

I must add that I failed to convince hi are what Freud calls syloves behind when I ao back there I go to dinner at the Thomsons', and at their front door I absent-mindedly take out my latch-key This may mean that I feel at home there; on the other hand, it ht with Wilson, an old college friend of mine We talked of old tis during his college course

”Yes,” he said, ”I was in the sa landlady was Mrs--Mrs--Good Lord! I've forgotten her naive it up Two hours later, as he rose to go, he exclaimed: ”I remember the name now! Mrs Watson!”

”What are your associations to the name Watson?” I asked

”associations? What do youthat comes into your head in connection with the name?” I asked

He hed shortly

”Good Lord!” he cried, ”that's my wife's na further, but I suspected that Wilson and his ere not getting on well together

Macdonald's self-governht him to return to the old way of authority

”They were fed up with looking after the each other for ot sick of it”