I did sense that she struggled to separate fantasy from reality – that she was slightly too neurotic for her own good. You came across such people from time to time. Mostly they weren’t bad sorts, but as you talked with them, they would gradually reveal their particular hang-ups and fixations. They didn’t seek to impose those fixations on others, and in that sense they were harmless, but they themselves were incapable of stepping free of their anxiety, even if provided with material that should by rights have assuaged it.
