When they had got as far as that, indeed, they could bring their learning, their science, and their experience to bear--and they could make foolish experiments, familiar to Unorna from her childhood as the sights and sounds of her daily life.

Few, if any of them, had even the power necessary to hypnotise an ordinarily strong man in health.

She, on the contrary, had never failed in that, and at the first trial, except with Keyork Arabian, a man of whom she said in her heart, half in jest and half superstitiously, that he was not a man at all, but a devil or a monster over whom earthly influences had no control.
All her energy returned.

The colour came back to her face, her eyes sparkled, her strong white hands contracted and opened, and closed again, as though she would grasp something.

The room, too, had become warmer and she had forgotten to lay aside her furs.