I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep him to the point of his madness⁠—a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.

(

Mem.

, under what circumstances would I

not

avoid the pit of hell?)