You were very rightly sceptical in these matters.

But in what I have endeavoured to prove to you, you have no doubts, have you ?" "None in the world," I said.

"I only ask you to go on teaching me the wonders that seem so familiar to you.

Let me know all I may; and soon!" I spoke with trembling eagerness.
"You have been only eight days in the house, my child," said Heliobas, loosening my hands, and signing me to come out of the chapel with him; "and I do not consider you sufficiently strong as yet for the experiment you wish me to try upon you.

Even now you are agitated.