His response was striking. His voice changed and he said, ina depressed tone, that he felt tired and unclean. It was as if, in amoment, I had in front of me, unchanged in every respect the patientas I had seen him at the first interview. The change was so suddenas to be disconcerting. What on earth, I wondered, had happened tothe twin and the complaining parent? It was as if he had swallowedthem and was suffering the consequences.