“I hope so. But you also seem to have another reservation.”
“After quite a few years in practice, I seldom see or hear anything new. Twice before I have been told a happening or a dream on the line of what you experienced.”
“Did you convince your patients that it was only a dream?”
“I did. Both of them. That is, I convinced them the first few times it happened to them.”
“Were they satisfied?”
“At first. Later, not entirely. But they both died within a year of their first coming to me.”
“Nothing violent, I hope.”
“Both had the gentlest deaths. That of senility extreme.”
“Oh. Well, I’m too young for that.”
“I would like you to come back in a month or so.”