She was working hard, and her amusements would mostly, she says, be regarded as rather childish.  She was extremely fond of dancing, and she was always pleased when anyone paid her attention.  She was frequently conscious of sexual feelings, sometimes tormented by them, and she regarded this as something to be ashamed of.  The constant longing for love was affected little or not at all by hard work.  “At about this time I was very fond of abandoning myself to day-dreams.  I was very glad if I could get everyone out of the house and lie on an easy chair or the bed.  I liked especially to read poetry, all the more if I did not quite understand it.  This would lead me on to all sorts of dreams of love, which, however, never went beyond the preliminaries of actual love—­as that was all I then knew of love.”  The only climax to her dream of love was founded on a piece of information volunteered by a married woman many years earlier, when she was about 12.  This lady—­evidently agreeing with Rousseau (who in Emile commended the mother’s reply to the child’s query whence babies come, “Les femmes les pissent, mon enfant, avec des grands douleurs”) that the unknown should first be explained to the young in terms of the known—­told her that the husband micturated into the wife.  She therefore used to imagine a lover who would bear her away into a forest and do this on her as she lay at the foot of a tree. (At a later date she accidentally discovered that a full bladder tended to enhance sexual feelings, and occasionally resorted to this physical measure of heightening excitement.) All the physical sensations of sexual desire were called out by these day-dreams, with abundant secretion, but never the orgasm.  Her reveries never led to masturbation or to allied manifestations, which have never taken place.  Such a method of relief has, indeed, never offered any temptation to her and she doubts even its possibility in her case. (At a later period of life, however, at the age of 31, masturbation began and was practised at intervals.) At the same time she remarks that, while no orgasm (of which, indeed, she was then ignorant) ever occurred, the sexual excitement produced by the day-dreams was sufficiently great to cause a feeling of relief afterward.  These day-dreams were the only way in which the sexual erethism was discharged.  She cannot recall having erotic dreams or any sexual manifestations during sleep.

Spontaneous sexual excitement was present a few days before menstruation, and fairly marked during and immediately after the period.  It also tended to recur in the middle of the intermenstrual period.

The pleasurable sensation connected with the smell of leather became more marked as she approached adult age.  It was especially pronounced about the age of 24, and the sexual emotion it produced (with moisture of the vulva) was then clearly conscious.  No other odor produced this effect in such a marked