Richard was on time but had been running because he left the hotel late. He said at once that the fleet was there after all; he must have misunderstood his mother's reply to his question as to whether they had brought the fleet back to ‘X’. Mummy had asked him whether Mrs K. had been annoyed because he was late yesterday. He again wanted to know if Mrs K. was going to keep him longer to day to make up for it.

Mrs K. replied that this was not possible because of her other arrangements.

Richard asked was it because of another patient; had Mrs K. only got men patients now; was he the youngest even among the London patients; how did Mrs K. travel—did she go first-class; was she by herself; was she comfortable, and did she eat on the train? He again asked whether there had been a thunderstorm in London too. (He had told Mrs K. in the previous session that he