Leoníd Fyódoritch. Very well. Then we will commence. Antón Borísitch, be so good as to hypnotize the medium.
Grossman. What method would you like me to use? There are several methods. There is Braid's system, there is the Egyptian symbol, and there is Charcot's system.
Leoníd Fyódoritch (to the PROFESSOR). I think it is quite immaterial.
Professor. Quite.
Grossman. Then I will make use of my own method, which I showed in Odessa.
Leoníd Fyódoritch. If you please!
[GROSSMAN waves his arms above SIMON. SIMON closes his eyes and stretches himself.
Grossman (looking closely at him). He is falling asleep! He is asleep! A remarkably rapid occurrence of hypnosis. The subject has evidently already reached a state of anæsthesia. He is remarkable,—an unusually impressionable subject, and might be subjected to interesting experiments!... (Sits down, rises, sits down again.) Now one might run a needle into his arm. If you like....
Professor (to LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH). Do you notice how the medium's trance acts on Grossman? He is beginning to vibrate.
Leoníd Fyódoritch. Yes, yes ... can the lights be extinguished now?