"Much less that it can move and produce a sound.

I know that the idea has possessed you for many years, but nothing will make me believe it possible." "Nothing ?" "Nothing short of seeing and hearing." "But you have seen and heard." "I was dreaming." "When you offered your soul ?" "Not then, perhaps.

I was only mad then." "And on the ground of temporary insanity you would repudiate the bargain ?" Unorna shrugged her shoulders impatiently and did not answer.

Keyork relinquished the fencing.
"It is of no importance," he said, changing his tone.

"Your dream--or whatever it was--seems to have been the second of your two experiences.
You said there were two, did you not?
What was the first ?" Unorna sat silent for some minutes, as though collecting her thoughts.
Keyork, who never could have enough light, busied himself with another lamp.