She denied ever having been pregnant, said the nurses on
the ward had spoken of her having had a child and that they
had showed her a child (one was born on that ward about
August, 1903) but that it was not hers. She thought it was
wrong for the nurses to speak on the ward of her having
been pregnant. Again questioned about her marriage, she
first said she had not been married, again that she was
married "a year ago" (was in the hospital then). Again she
spoke of her husband as her "gentleman friend," claimed she
called herself Mary M. (maiden name) until a girl friend
wrote her a letter addressed to Mrs. F. From then on, she
called herself by her married name. But she thought that
probably they sometimes spoke of her marriage in fun. If
she were Mrs. F. she would be living in Mr. F.'s house.

On June 29, when again asked about her marriage, she said
she was to have been married in December (correct date).
(Were you?) "So they say." (Do you remember it?) "In a
way." (When was the baby born?) "You will have to ask
somebody more superior to me, more experienced." Then, when
further questioned about the age of the baby, she said,
"The baby I saw in the ward was about a year old," and she
claimed not to remember ever having a baby. When asked why
she had come here she said, "Well, I don't know, perhaps
you know better, through sickness I guess," and later:
"Well, don't you ever get a cold and want doctors to
examine you?" (What kind of a place?) "This is a nice place
for sensible people who have enough knowledge to know and
realize what they come for." But she knew the name of the
place, the date, the names of persons.

Questioned about the trouble with her father or her
husband's trouble with him, she denied it, "If he did (sc.
have any trouble), I don't remember." About her not
speaking, she said, in answer to questions, "I didn't know
what I was here for, what was the object in keeping me
here"; and to other questions about her condition, "I don't
know, those who examined me can tell you more about that."
Finally, she said in reply to the question, why she came
here, "I don't remember _unless it was through fire_," but
would not explain what she meant.

In the beginning of July, s