human
Ah, but, Doctor Dattner pointed out,
gpt
You mean in the attack of diphtheria?
human
Not at all. I mean in something that happened to you before you had diphtheria--something which so exceedingly distressed you that it was continually uppermost in your thoughts, and which finally worked on you so much that when your nervous system was weakened by the diphtheria it gave rise to your stammering. Now, we are going to try to discover what that something was, and, when we have done so, it will be possible really to cure you. Can you recall any particularly disagreeable incident of your childhood occurring at any time before you were ill of diphtheria?
gpt
No, said the other, after a little reflection,
human
I think that I was perfectly happy as a child, and certainly I was treated kindly.
gpt
Just the same, something must have happened at that period to disturb you very much. Let us find out, if we can, what it was.