Before you read me those reports from Mr.Drummond, let me finish." Forest Caswell almost dropped them in surprise.
"Dreams," she continued, seeing her advantage, "are wishes, either suppressed or expressed.

Sometimes the dream is frank and shows an expressed wish.

Other times it shows a suppressed wish, or a wish which in its fulfilment in the dream is disguised or distorted.
"You are the cause of your wife's dreams.

She feels in them anxiety.
And, according to the modern psychologists who have studied dreams carefully and scientifically, fear and anxiety represent love repressed or suppressed." She paused to emphasize the point, glad to note that he was following her.
"That clairvoyant," she went on, "has found out the truth.

True, it may not have been the part of wisdom for Mildred to have gone to her in the first place.