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98 Mrs. Medley's illness: and that "the love between her and me was greater than the love between many a mother and child."

It will be seen that the idea of death had been already summoned up by the previous waking experience, and that the dream simply embodied the same idea in the traditional symbolic imagery—a tradition closely associated in the dreamer's mind with the idea of the dying woman.