FAT LADY. No, no, whatever you may say, this is one of the happiest moments of my life! When I heard Sarasate play, and now.… Yes! [No one listens to her. She goes up to Simon] Now tell me, my friend, what did you feel? Was it very trying?
SIMON [laughs] Yes, ma'm, just so.
FAT LADY. Still not unendurable?
SIMON. Just so, ma'm. [To Leoníd Fyódoritch] Am I to go?
LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH. Yes, you may go.
DOCTOR [to the Professor] The pulse is the same, but the temperature is lower.
PROFESSOR. Lower! [Considers awhile, then suddenly divines the conclusion] It had to be so—it had to descend! The dual influence crossing had to produce some kind of reflex action. Yes, that's it!
| Exeunt, all talking at once. | LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH. I'm only sorry we had no completematerialisation. But still.… Come, gentlemen,let us go to the drawing-room? | ||
| FAT LADY. What specially struck me was when heflapped his wings, and one saw how he rose! | |||
| GROSSMAN [to Sahátof] If we had kept to hypnotism,we might have produced a thorough state of epilepsy.The success might have been complete! | |||
| SAHÁTOF. It is very interesting, but not entirelyconvincing. That is all I can say. |
Enter Theodore Ivánitch.
LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH [with paper in his hand] Ah, Theodore, what a remarkable séance we have had! It turns out that the peasants must have the land on their own terms.