She fascinated the non-scientific side of this famous physician; he interested her intensely.
"Do you know," she ventured with a faint smile, "that you are really quite as psychically endowed as I am?"
His handsome, sanguine features flushed deeply, but he smiled in appreciation.
"Not in the manner you so saucily imply, Miss Greensleeve," he said gaily. "My work is sound, logical, reasonable, and based on fundamental truths capable of being proven. I never saw an apparition in my life—and believed that it was really there!"
"Oh! So you have seen an apparition?"
"None that could have really existed independently of my own vision. In other words it wouldn't have been there at all if I hadn't supposed I had seen it."
"You did suppose so?"
"I knew perfectly well that I didn't see it. I didn't even think I saw it."
"But you saw it?"