"Black."
Again I noted the answering word in the second column, while again I saw him put down another "2-5."
I began to see dimly what his method was. Evidently Kennedy had chosen colorless words at the start to reassure her. And the fact was that they did reassure. She saw immediately that there was nothing very terrifying about what he wanted her to do.
"Dream," Craig added, from the list.
Flashed through my mind, as I prepared to write, the thought that he was now coming to the words more significant.
"Lathrop," she answered.
I saw that Kennedy had noted a longer reaction time by some fifths of a second than before. Was it because she had checked a first thought suggested by the word and had taken extra time to substitute something for it? And why had she made the substitution that she did? It was a natural thing to mention the doctor's name in that connection. Had she rejected one word to cast about for another equally natural?
I scarcely think it necessary to follow the whole thing through, question and answer, word by word. Instead I have appended a list of the words and the answering words as we got them first, and suggest that they will bear careful study:
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| foot | shoe | |
| gray | black | |
| dream | Lathrop | |
| struggle | escape | |
| ship | ocean | |
| bean | baked | |
| lion | path | |
| book | newspaper | |
| false | true | |
| voyage | Europe | |
| money | poor | |
| sad | myself | |
| quarrel | Vail | |
| marry | Vail | |
| bull | breath | |
| sleep | dream | |
| foolish | wise | |
| despise | love | |
| finger | hand | |
| friend | none | |
| serpent | hiss | |
| face | man | |
| chair | sit | |
| bottle | stopper | |
| glass | empty |
Kennedy finished and glanced hastily over the list of words that I had written, as well as the fractions of seconds which he had jotted down on his own sheet of paper. Honora, unable to make out quite what was the reason back of all these enigmatical proceedings, watched his face narrowly.