When dolly had endured unmoved the worst that science could inflict, nothing would satisfy Miss Gwenny but that every one else should take hold in a circle, as on a previous occasion, and that she should retain control of the regulator. The experiment was tried as proposed, all present joining in it except Mrs. Arkwright, who excused herself owing to the trouble of taking her gloves off. Including nurse, there were six persons. However, as nurse couldn't abide it, almost before it had begun to say whizzy-wizzy-wizz, this number was reduced to five. "Keep your eye on the kid, my dear," said Fenwick, addressing the presiding young lady in his easy-going way; "don't let her put it on all at once. Are you ready, Sarah? You ready, Mrs. Paganini? All right--fire away!" The young lady in charge kept a careful hand near Miss Gwenny's, who was instructed or guided to increase the current gradually. Her attitude was docile and misleading. "Go on--a little more--yes, a little more.... No, that's enough!... Oh, what nonsense! that's nothing!... Oh, Sally, do let _go_!... Oh, Tishy, what a goose you are! That's nothing.... E-ow! It's horrible. _I_ won't have any more of it." The chorus of exclamations, which you may allot at choice, ended in laughter as the galvanised circle broke up. "Well, you are a lot of weak-kneed ... conductivities," said Fenwick, feeling for the word. "That was nothing, as Sarah says." "Look here," suggested Sally. "Me get between you two men, and Gwenny stick it in full up." This was done, and Sally heroically endured the "full up" current, which, as you doubtless are aware, increases in viciousness as it has fewer and fewer victims. But she wasn't sorry when it was over, for all that. "You and I could take it full up," said Fenwick to Bradshaw, who assented. But Paganini evidently didn't like it when it came to three-quarters. Also, his wife said to him, "You'll spoil your fingering, Julius." Fenwick seemed to think them all over-sensitive. "I could stand that by myself," said he, and took both handles. But just at this moment a strange event happened. Somebody actually applied to see the invisible lady. The eyes of the damsel in charge were for one moment withdrawn from Miss Gwenny, who promptly seized the opportunity to thrust in the regulator "full up." Fenwick wasn't going to cry for mercy--not he! But his lips clenched and his eyes glared, and his hands shook. "How can you be such a _goose_, Jeremiah?" said Sally, who was standing close by the battery, opposite to Gwenny. She thrust back the regulator, and put an end to Fenwick's excruciations. He said, "What did you do that for, Sarah? I could have stood it for six months." And Sally replied: "For shame, you wicked story! And after you'd been electrocuted once, too!"