M.D.of Edinburgh." "Why can you not save her then?
A man who is a Scotch doctor, and who possesses the power of performing such practical jokes on nature as you exhibited the other night, might do something.

However, I suppose I am not talking to you at all.

You are in Thibet with Shere Ali.

This is your astral body, and if I were near enough, I could poke my fingers right through you, as you sit there, telling me you are an Edinburgh doctor, forsooth." "Quite right, Mr.Griggs.At the present moment my body is quietly asleep in a lamastery in Thibet, and this is my astral shape, which, from force of habit, I begin to like almost as well.

But to be serious----" "I think it is very serious, your going about in this casual manner." "To be serious.