“Hiermanfor! what do you wish me to believe?”
“Whatever you can believe.”
“Here the figure of my tutor was standing, and there I stood and conversed with him.”
“You may have been dreaming, it was perhaps one of my finest artifices.”
“What can you say against it?”
“Nothing, my Lord, nothing!”
“I conjure you, what can you say against it?”
“On one part I could find it improbable that two people should have the same dream while they are awake; on the other, that the most consummate juggler would find it difficult to produce by day-light, and on an open spot, an airy vision which resembles your friend exactly, talks in a sensible manner, answers questions which are put to it, and appears a second time at your desire.”
“True, very true! however the apparition is not less mysterious to me if I deem it no illusion.”
“You will comprehend it one time, said Antonio.”