"You must have slept hard. You're pretty apt to dream when you're waking."
"How do you know?"
"Ah, I've noticed when you've been talking to me. Better not! It's a bad habit; it gives you false views of things. I used——"
"But you mustn't say you used! That's forbidden now. Remember your promise!"
"My promise? What promise?"
"Oh, if you've forgotten already."
"I remember. But that was last night."
"No, no! It was for all time. Why should dreams be so very misleading? I think there's ever so much in dreams. The most wonderful thing is the way you make people talk in dreams. It isn't strange that you should talk yourself, but that other people should say this and that when you aren't at all expecting what they say."
"That's when you're sleeping. But when you're waking, you make people say just what you want. And that's why day dreams are so bad. If you make people say what you want, they probably don't mean it."
"Don't you think so?"