“It would arrest the disease that is ravaging your strength and at the same time stimulate your nerves; so that, waste ceasing, all the energies of your body would unite in building up strength and health again.”
“How truly delightful!”
“Your restlessness would vanish. This morbid mental condition, which is so apparent, would become replaced by a calm, cheerful, contented frame of mind—like mine!”
“My dear Sir! How my friends would bless you!”
“In the course of a few months——”
“Months? La! I can’t wait months. I’ll have five drops a day.”
“God forbid! That would defeat its own end. To stimulate is one thing, but to over-excite——”
“Would five drops over-excite me?”
“Indubitably. If one has already so potently invigorating an effect, five drops would produce a most undesirable condition of mental super-excitement—most undesirable!”
“Then ten drops?”