Fifty-Ninth Session

Richard again met Mrs K. near her home. Since he was well aware that this was taking advantage of her, he coped with his embarrassment by being over-lively and jocular. He asked Mrs K. whether she had wondered who was coming to meet her—was it perhaps Mr K.? He told her that everything was all right, his earache had gone and he was very well; also that he was wearing his new suit. While Mrs K. went to fetch the key of the playroom, Richard waited outside. He asked her whom she had seen, was it only the old lady (with whom the keys were deposited) or was somebody else with her? While on the road with Mrs K. he was alert to everything that was going on and all the people they saw. He often turned round, but even when he did not, he seemed to be aware of what was happening behind him. He said that today they would not meet Mr Smith, since it was Sunday, and pointed out the way Mr Smith went in the morning from his home to his business. He said that today there were not many people on the road, but in any case he was no longer so frightened of meeting people; but he added that one should not become too careless. This last remark he mumbled.… On arriving at the playroom he said he had not brought the fleet—he did not want to. He drank water from the tap and asked for the pad. Then he changed his mind and asked for the whole basket (in which Mrs K. carried the toys, the pad, and the pencils). He looked eagerly into it and took things out. He first looked at the little swing and became anxious because he said it was not quite all right—one side was a bit loose. He at once put it back into the basket, which he pushed aside, saying that this was an injured Mummy. He began to draw (Drawing 50). This again consisted of railway lines and the trains were rushing from ‘Roseman’ to ‘Halmsville’. He again spelled it ‘Halmsville’, and when Mrs K. pointed this out to him he repeated that it was ‘Hamsville’