"That's it," he said. "Reserprine."
"What did you say?" the girl asked him, an amused look on her face.
"Er, I said, that one's fine," Horner blurted, pointing at random at one of the men on the other side of the glass partition.
"Good," the girl said. "Then everything is ready." She touched a section of the wall and the dazzling glass sheet abruptly went opaque. This lasted for some five seconds, then the wall became transparent again.
All but one of the men had disappeared. Horner assumed it was the individual he had singled out quite at random.
"Now really ..." he began.
"Look at me," the girl said.
That was easy. She was beautiful.
Her eyes grew very large. Incredibly large. They filled her entire head. They filled the room. They were two enormous blue pits. Horner jumped into both of them just before he fell into a deep hypnotic sleep.