It was clear that carnivorous tastes were not the whole solution, for Roxana was famed as a notable mouser.
"Your principle ?" Sebastian asked our sibyl, in his brief, quick way.
Hilda's cheek wore a glow of pardonable triumph.

The great teacher had deigned to ask her assistance.

"I judged by the analogy of Indian hemp," she answered.

"This is clearly a similar, but much stronger, narcotic.
Now, whenever I have given Indian hemp by your direction to people of sluggish, or even of merely bustling temperament, I have noticed that small doses produce serious effects, and that the after-results are most undesirable.

But when you have prescribed the hemp for nervous, overstrung, imaginative people, I have observed that they can stand large amounts of the tincture without evil results, and that the after-effects pass off rapidly.