Professor. Yes. You don’t how real it seemed.
Doctor. It would give you that impression.
Professor. But even now.
Doctor. Yes, yes. But there will be a reaction. That will pass.
Professor. But—Doctor—I’m not satisfied.
Doctor. You will be. Don’t dwell on it! You’ll get all right again. Don’t work too much at night, and don’t sit up late.
Professor. I go to bed regularly every night at a quarter to ten.
Doctor. Good! Then just for the present make it half-past nine.
Professor. Doctor, I want to explain— At first, of course, I took the view that you take. I did not for a moment believe that such a thing could exist. I regarded it as an hallucination. But later on, it—well I came to think otherwise—It did such a lot of things—that I could not myself have conceived—and once it actually touched me. That was a great shock.
Doctor. Yes, it would be, naturally. But you were indulging the——