It is you who are trying to jest.

It is I who am in earnest.

Did you, or did you not, offer your soul for a certain piece of information?
Did you, or did you not, hear those dead things moan and cry?
Did you, or did you not, see them move ?" "How absurd!" cried Unorna.

"You might as well ask whether, when one is giddy, the room is really going round?
Is there any practical difference, so far as sensation goes, between a mummy and a block of wood ?" "That, my dear lady, is precisely what we do not know, and what we most wish to know.

Death is not the change which takes place at a moment which is generally clearly defined, when the heart stops beating, and the eye turns white, and the face changes colour.