The woman is of course Hanold's childhood sweetheart, Zoë; and 'fortunately his "Gradiva" is as shrewd as she is beautiful.
With respect to 'the final paragraph, in which Jensen has Hanold asking Zoë to walk ahead of him and she complies with a smile, Freud put, "Erotic..foot interest"'..By walking ahead of him in imitation of "Gradiva" on the plaque, she finds the key to his therapy' [REF].