The law doesn't recognize, perhaps ought not to recognize it.

Some call it hypnotism.
I call it suggestion." He paused, as if he had finished.
"But your advice, doctor ?" Julian said, wondering.
"Oh, h'm! I don't mean to give it to you, after all." "Why ?" Doctor Levillier became enigmatic.
"Because I have just remembered that to warn is often to supply a cause of stumbling," he said.
Dr.Levillier and Julian drove together as far as the latter's chambers that evening, and, after bidding Julian good-night, the doctor dismissed the cab and set out to walk to Harley Street.

He proceeded at a leisurely pace along Piccadilly, threading his way abstractedly among the wandering wisps of painted humanity that dye the London night with rouge.

Occasionally a passing man in evening dress would bid him good-night, for he was universally known in the town.

But he did not reply.