“It WOULD do,” I said.
“If you were a statesman in a corner, for example, time rushing up against you, something urgent to be done, eh?”
“He could dose his private secretary,” I said.
“And gain—double time. And think if YOU, for example, wanted to finish a book.”
“Usually,” I said, “I wish I'd never begun 'em.”
“Or a doctor, driven to death, wants to sit down and think out a case. Or a barrister—or a man cramming for an examination.”
“Worth a guinea a drop,” said I, “and more to men like that.”
“And in a duel, again,” said Gibberne, “where it all depends on your quickness in pulling the trigger.”
“Or in fencing,” I echoed.
“You see,” said Gibberne, “if I get it as an all-round thing it will really do you no harm at all—except perhaps to an infinitesimal degree it brings you nearer old age. You will just have lived twice to other people's once—”