Auto-hypnosis this time.

You should really be less nervous.

You probably stared at the lamp without realising the fact.

You know that any shining object affects you in that way, if you are not careful.

It is a very bright lamp, too.
Instantaneous effect--bodies appear to move and you hear unearthly yells--you offer your soul for sale and I buy it, appearing in the nick of time?
If your condition had lasted ten seconds longer you would have taken me for his majesty and lived, in imagination, through a dozen years or so of sulphurous purgatorial treatment under my personal supervision, to wake up and find yourself unscorched--and unredeemed, as ever." "You are a most comforting person, Keyork," said Unorna, with a faint smile.