He preferred the little man's silence to his wild talk, but he was determined, if possible, to extract some further information concerning Unorna, and before many seconds had elapsed he interrupted Keyork's meditations with a question.
"You tell me to see for myself," he said.

"I would like to know what I am to expect.

Will you not enlighten me ?" "What ?" asked the other vaguely, as though roused from sleep.
"If I go to Unorna and ask a consultation of her, as though she were a common somnambulist, and if she deigns to place her powers at my disposal what sort of assistance shall I most probably get ?" They had been walking slowly forward, and Keyork again stopped, rapping the pavement with his iron-shod stick, and looking up from under his bushy, overhanging eyebrows.
"Of two things, one will happen," he answered.

"Either she will herself fall into the abnormal state and will answer correctly any questions you put to her, or she will hypnotise you, and you will yourself see--what you wish to see." "I myself ?" "You yourself.

The peculiarity of the woman is her duality, her double power.