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 to go—cleaning, furniture, Peter, marketing, everything."

Old Mr. Gardner shook his head.

"Yes," he said, "I knowed right along that Annie was nothing but a child."

"That's it exactly, Mr. Gardner," the social worker concluded. "Annie and Peter are nothing but children. If you'll remember this, you'll have no trouble in understanding them and helping them."

She might have said that they were mental defectives. That she did not was the success of her explanation. She told the relatives about Peter and Annie in terms that were within the range of their experience, using the apparently inexplicable behavior of the Ainsleys as proof of the diagnosis which she advanced—Peter and Annie were nothing but children.

In general, the same methods of interpretation were used both here and in the other instances that have been presented. While the dialogue was devious and prolonged and while what has been reported represents only the climaxes of the various conversations, they all bear testimony to the validity of certain fundamental principles.

If, as with Tony Cavallo, the behavior of the