"She neglected to give it to me." Buddy looked sour again, and I wondered what it would be like to have "unpredictable mentation"-a phrase I'd once heard a shrink use-like she did. From her reactions, I sometimes wondered if her questions and comments were not really under her conscious control, and were as surprising-and sometimes disruptive-to her as they were to me. That had to be one of the most terrifying situations imaginable, I decided. How did Buddy put up with it?