"For what motive I cannot at present determine; but I shall know as soon as you touch the extreme edge of my circle.

You are a long way off it yet, but you are coming in spite of yourself, Ivan." The Prince fidgeted restlessly in his chair, and toyed with the fruit on his plate in a nervous manner.
"If I did not know you to be an absolutely truthful and honourable man, Casimir," he said, "I should think you were trying to deceive me.

But I have seen what you can do, therefore I must believe you.

Still I confess I do not follow you in your circle theory." "To begin with," returned Heliobas, "the Universe is a circle.
Everything is circular, from the motion of planets down to the human eye, or the cup of a flower, or a drop of dew.

MY 'circle theory,' as you call it, applied to human electric force, is very simple; but I have proved it to be mathematically correct.