Nature might rebel in the end and throw off the yoke of the heavily-imposed will.

An interval might follow, full again of storm and passion and despair; but it would pass, and he would again fall under her influence.

She had read, and Keyork Arabian had told her, of the marvels done every day by physicians of common power in the great hospitals and universities of the Empire, and elsewhere throughout Europe.

None of them appeared to be men of extraordinary natural gifts.
Their powers were but weakness compared with hers.

Even with miserable, hysteric women they often had to try again and again before they could produce the hypnotic sleep for the first time.