she voiced no objection when he asked her once to teach him how to knit. There was one brief lesson, but the idea was dropped by mutual agreement, both having in mind the possible sarcastic remarks which the father would utter if he should find out. Actually all of these facts loom larger than they were if we consider them apart, from the myriad activities and events that make-up everyday life for any little boy. There were games too in which he was very much a boy, and fights in which he was always the loser. Until Susanna struck her first blow, in the way a little chick gives its first peok at the egg shell which imprisons it.

The occasion was the equivalent of the North American Hall- Oween time in a South American city. The little boy had been pres- ented with a little devil's outfit for the occasion. He was very happy with it. He put it on bright and early that morning, and dashed into the street to show his costume to a playmate of his who lived next door--a boy about his same age, 7 or 8. As he stood in the doorway of his friend's house, his pal opened the door wit. a big grin on his face. He too had been presented by his mother with a costume, a costume which was to become a turning point in the life of a human being. It was an organdy dress, white as snor, set off by a white straw picture hat and white little girl's shoes. A bunch of violets at the waist line completed the outfit. The little boy of our story was seized by a violent emotional storm upon bee- ing how his playmate was dressed. It was as if he'd been hit by a thunderbolt. He was struck speechless. A strange paralysis took hold of him and the image of that dress burned itself deep into his soul. He knew, in that moment of revelation, that he would have given his life, if necessary, to be able to wear those clothes. It was not his trembling hand that reached out and touched the organdy, it was Susanna's invisible self that was grasping the key to her eventual liberation. The obsession took a firm hold in that very moment and became a powerful, driving force in the entire life of this strange dual personality.

From the age of 7 until 13, Susanna was only a vague but con- stant companion in an endless series of daydreams. Her still lazy presence did not however, interfere in the development of this schoolboy. He continued to be top student in his class although he thoroughly detested his compulsory Physical Education courses. Не