“The wild life such as you lead here on this island, for instance, might quickly awaken his savage instincts⁠—his buried instincts⁠—and with profoundly disquieting results.”

“You mean his Subtle Body, as you call it, might issue forth automatically in deep sleep and seek the object of its desire?” I said, coming to Maloney’s aid, who was finding it more and more difficult to get words.

“Precisely;⁠—yet the desire of the man remaining utterly unmalefic⁠—pure and wholesome in every sense⁠—”

“Ah!” I heard the clergyman gasp.