One day, just after passing into
the second stage, she attended the funeral of an acquaintance.
Returning in a cab she felt the period coming on which she calls
her crisis (normal state). She dozed several seconds, without
attracting the attention of the ladies who were in the cab, and
awoke in the other state, absolutely at a loss to know why she
was in a mourning carriage with people who, according to custom,
were praising the qualities of a deceased person whose name she
did not even know. Accustomed to such positions, she waited; by
adroit questions she managed to understand the situation, and no
one suspected what had happened. Once when in her abnormal
condition she discovered that her husband had a mistress, and was
so overcome that she sought to commit suicide. Yet in her normal
mind she meets the woman with perfect equilibrium and
forgetfulness of any cause for quarrel. It is only in her
abnormal state that the jealousy recurs. As the years went on the
second state became her usual condition. That which was at first
accidental and abnormal now constitutes the regular center of her
psychic life. It is rather satisfactory to chronicle that as
between the two egos which alternately possess her, the more
cheerful has finally reached the ascendant.
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