Chambige, working upon her facile imagination, could impose another conscious- ness, suggest a sexual excitation which she could not resiSt Cham- bige could do all this, thinking that she loved him truly, without knowing anything at all about hypnotism.

Her normal state did not love him, but her subconscious state did.

Returning to her normal consciousness, Madame Grille would not remember anythinG Thus on the morning of the crime the victim wrote her letter in the great- est of tranquillity; an instant afterwards Chambige could have sug- gested to go to the pavilion; then came a foolish passion, an irresistible excitatioN If the poor woman had made him promise to kill her after her seduction to save her from dishonor, it would be the moral sense surviving in her hypnotic state, as an old hereditary feeling or by education, which could not be put down; her normal conscience could be dominated but not extinguished in the somnambulistic state; but the passion suggested overcomes it for the time.

She is not herself.

That which characterizes somnambulism is not sleep; there is a som- nambulism awake; consciousness exists, but it is another state of con- sciousness in which the faculties of reason are lessened or absent; the faculties of imagination, the idiodynamic automatism constructs the scene.