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The playroom was not available that day, so Mrs K. met Richard outside and took him to the house where she was living.
Richard was very thrilled to see Mrs K.'s lodgings at last, all the more as he knew that he was one of the few patients whom she did not treat there. On the way he was in a happy, somewhat elated mood, pointed out a house with flowers in the front garden, and said it was ‘exquisite and lovely’; he hoped that no bomb would ever fall there. He also remarked that it was a pity that he could not have the playroom that day and said with feeling that he still liked it and that it had ‘always been loyal to us’ (meaning himself and Mrs K.). On entering the house he said, ‘Mrs K., I am terribly fond of you.’ He looked round in the room and asked questions about Mrs K.'s other patients, particularly in which room she was seeing John. (Since Richard knew that Mrs K.'s lodgings consisted of two rooms, his question implied that she might see John in her bedroom.) Richard then put further questions: how many patients had Mrs K.?; was he the last yesterday? (He had come in the afternoon,