I went in to see Isobel just after half past four, She was sound asleep when I arrived. She has not been sick since my previous visit. The nurses reported that although she had completely eaten both breakfast and lunch, she had not been completely awake for much of the day.

As she was so soundly asleep and had eaten well I did not make a determined attempt to wake her. I manipulated and massaged her right arm. I cut the fingernails on her left hand. I cut the fingernails on the thumb, first and third fingers of her right hand; the other fingers were curled so tightly that it would have caused pain to uncurl them. I went home at about a quarter past five.