9/22 Make three trials--leaving them to change their places or not, between each trial, just as they please. If you guess which is which correctly three times following, there will be the proof that you can really lay your hand on a difference between them." Lucilla shrank from accepting the challenge. She drew back a step, and silently shook her head. Nugent, who had overheard me, turned round suddenly from the window, and supported my proposal. "Let's try it! You don't object, Oscar--do you ?" "_I_ object ?" cried Oscar--amazed at the bare idea of his opposing any assertion of his will to the assertion of his brother's will. |