Ignorant of the fact that she had been hypnotized, and not remembering that she had talked, without doubt Phillis still feared that he would hypnotize her; he would threaten it again, and surely she would find a way to defend herself and escape from him.
This is what happened. The next day, when he told her decidedly that he wished to put her to sleep in order that he might learn what troubled her, she showed the same fright as on the first time.
“All that you have asked of me, everything that you have desired, I have wished as you and with you; but I will never consent to this.”
“Your resistance is absurd; I will not yield to it.”
“You shall not put me to sleep against my will.”
“Easily.”
“It is not possible.”
Without replying, he took a book from the library, and turning over the leaves, he read: “Is it possible to make a sleeping person, without awaking him, pass from the natural to the hypnotic sleep? The thing is possible, at least with certain subjects.”
Then handing her the book:
“You see that to put you to sleep artificially I need only the opportunity of finding you sleeping naturally. It is very simple.”