ad said to the aunt and what
she said at first under observation. She consistently
denied that anything had happened with young men. A short
time before she left her place (she left it nine days
before admission) she could not work, began to accuse
herself of being a bad girl and of having stolen. Then she
was taken to the aunt's house. There she wanted to die.

_Under Observation:_ 1. On admission the patient appeared
depressed, sat with downcast expression, looking up rarely.
She spoke in a low tone and slowly. But, in spite of delay,
she answered all questions, knew where she was and gave an
account of the place where she had worked. When questioned
about trouble with men, she claimed that a man who lived in
the same house where she worked had tried to make her "lie
on the bed," but that she refused; that later a man had
assaulted her and had after that repeatedly come to her
room when she was alone. Yet when asked whether she worried
about this, she denied it.

2. For eight days her condition was sometimes one of marked
reduction of activity, with preoccupation. She sat in a
dejected attitude, and had to be urged to do anything.
Sometimes she was very slow in greeting and slow in
answering, and said very little. But whenever spoken to she
was apt to cry and this might lead to such distress that
the reduction of activity was no longer to be seen. Thus on
June 28, when greeted, she began to cry and say, "Oh, what
have I done!--Oh, just cut my head off--Oh, please what
have I done--I have given my hand." (Tell me the whole
story.) Imploringly and with hands clasped: "No, I can't do
it--just cut my head off, please, please." (Why can you not
tell me?) "Oh, what have I done!" The imploring to cut her
head off was then several times repeated, and she could not
be made to answer orientation questions. On June 29 she
became agitated spontaneously and cried loudly, saying,
"Oh, let me go home and die with my father." She was then
put to bed, and when seen she could not be made to answer
orientation questions. But when asked whether she had seen
the physician before, she said, "I saw you yesterday." She
could not be made, however, to say how long she had been
here, "I think a"--not finishing