It is not possible, in a work of fiction, to quote learned authorities at every chapter, but it may be said here, and once for all, that all the most important situations have been taken from cases which have come under medical observation within the last few years.
Unorna was hardly conscious of what she had done.

She had not had the intention of making Beatrice sleep, for she had no distinct intention whatever at that moment.

Her words and her look had been but the natural results of overstrained passion, and she repeated what she had said again and again, and gazed long and fiercely into Beatrice's face before she realised that she had unintentionally thrown her rival and enemy into the intermediate state.

It is rarely that the first stage of hypnotism produces the same consequences in two different individuals.
In Beatrice it took the form of total unconsciousness, as though she had merely fainted away.
Unorna gradually regained her self-possession.

After all, Beatrice had told her nothing which she did not either wholly know or partly guess, and her anger was not the result of the revelation but of the way in which the story had been told.