Fat Lady (to GROSSMAN). One moment! The condition you were in could not be called sleep?
Grossman (wearily). It was hypnosis.
Sahátof. In that case, are we to understand that you hypnotised yourself?
Grossman. And why not? An hypnotic state may ensue not only in consequence of association—the sound of the tom-tom, for instance, in Charcot's method—but by merely entering an hypnogenetic zone.
Sahátof. Granting that, it would still be desirable to define what hypnotism is, more exactly?
Professor. Hypnotism is a phenomenon resulting from the transmutation of one energy into another.
Grossman. Charcot does not so define it.
Sahátof. A moment, just a moment! That is your definition, but Liébault told me himself....
Doctor (lets go of GROSSMAN'S pulse). Ah, that's all right; well, now, the temperature?
Fat Lady (interrupting). No, allow me! I agree with the Professor. And here's the very best proof. After my illness, when I lay insensible, a desire to speak came over me. In general I am of a silent disposition, but then I was overcome by this desire to speak, and I spoke and spoke, and I was told that I spoke in such a way that every one was astonished! (To SAHÁTOF.) But I think I interrupted you?