Full well I know the danger of such a Power, unless used for good.
I now made up my mind to use this Will, or Magnatism, on Leila, she being unsuspicious at the time and thinking that the thought of Marriage was her own, and no one else’s.
Being still awake when the Familey came upstairs, I went into her room and experamented while she was taking down her hair.
“Well?” she said at last. “You needn’t stare like that. I can’t do my hair this way without a Swich.”
“I was merely thinking,” I said in a lofty tone.
“Then go and think in bed.”
“Does it or does it not concern you as to what I was thinking?” I demanded.
“It doesn’t greatly concern me,” she replied, wraping her hair around a kid curler, “but I darsay I know what it was. It’s written all over you in letters a foot high. You’d like me to get married and out of the way.”
I was exultent yet terrafied at this result of my Experament. Already! I said to my wildly beating heart. And if thus in five minutes what in the entire summer?
On returning to my Chamber I spent a pleasant hour planing my maid-of-honor gown, which I considered might be blue to mach my eyes, with large pink hat and carrying pink flours.