She becomes gay, noisy, and restless to an insupportable degree; she continues good-natured, but she has acquired a singular tendency to irony and bitter jests....

In this state she does not recognise her identity with her waking self.

'That good woman is not I,' she says; 'she is too stupid!'" Madame B.has been so often hypnotised, and during so many years (for she was hypnotised by other physicians as long ago as 1860), that Leonie II.

has by this time acquired a considerable stock of memories which Madame B.does not share.

Leonie II., therefore, counts as properly belonging to her own history and not to Madame B.'s all the events which have taken place while Madame B.'s normal self was hypnotised into unconsciousness.