Will you oblige me by taking a couple of swallows of this mixture?
It will do you good.

I am a physician." I repelled the glass with my hand and sat up on the couch, although with an effort, for my head was strangely light.
"I insist upon knowing at once where I am and what you have been doing with me," I said.
"My dear sir," responded my companion, "let me beg that you will not agitate yourself.

I would rather you did not insist upon explanations so soon, but if you do, I will try to satisfy you, provided you will first take this draught, which will strengthen you somewhat." I thereupon drank what he offered me.

Then he said, "It is not so simple a matter as you evidently suppose to tell you how you came here.
You can tell me quite as much on that point as I can tell you.

You have just been roused from a deep sleep, or, more properly, trance.