“Will it be painful?”
“Not very—a slight twinge, that’s all.”
I remained again in doubt. He noticed my hesitation, and urged me to submit.
But my natural caution asserted itself, and I felt disinclined to place myself in the hands of one of whose bona fides I knew absolutely nothing.
As politely as I could I told him this, but he merely replied—
“I have been sent by the lady whom we both know as Edna. Have you no confidence in her desire to assist you?”
“Certainly I have.”
“She has already explained to me that you have promised to carry out her wishes. It is at her urgent request that I have come to you with the object of giving you back your sight.”
“She wishes me to submit to the experiment?”
“Pardon me. It is no experiment,” he said. “She desires you to submit yourself to my treatment. If you do, I have entire confidence that in a week or so you will see almost as well as I do.”