"However, I will admit that Gevingey astounds me when he asserts that he was visited by a succubus.

His good faith is not to be doubted, for I know him to be a man who means what he says, though he is vain and doctorial.

I know, too, that at La Salpetriere such occurrences are not rare.

Women smitten with hystero-epilepsy see phantoms beside them in broad daylight and mate with them in a cataleptic state, and every night couch with visions that must be exactly like the fluid creatures of incubacy.

But these women are hystero-epileptics, and Gevingey isn't, for I am his physician.