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Dr. Holdman Stedding wavered in his mind. Ought he to let this talk run on or close down on it forthwith?
At least half the disordered minds of the present time, he reflected, develop delusions about radiations. That kind of fancy has largely replaced those spiritual visions and inner voices which supplied the demented with crazy interpretations of their perplexities in the past. It was dangerous stuff, and the mind of Davis, to say the least of it, was very delicately poised. And yet there was something faintly plausible--a sort of fairy-tale plausibility--about this idea that caught the unprofessional elements of the doctor's imagination. He went on taking the idea seriously.