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`` So be it , old comrade , '' answered the other . The reconciled enemies dined in the Palais-Royal . After a lively conversation , which helped Minoret to evade the fever of the ideas which were ravaging his brain , Bouvard said to him : -- `` If you admit in that woman the faculty of annihilating or of traversing space , if you obtain a certainty that here , in Paris , she sees and hears what is said and done in Nemours , you must admit all other magnetic facts ; they are not more incredible than these . Ask her for some one proof which you know will satisfy you -- for you might suppose that we obtained information to deceive you ; but we can not know , for instance , what will happen at nine o'clock in your goddaughter 's bedroom . Remember , or write down , what the sleeper will see and hear , and then go home . Your little Ursula , whom I do not know , is not our accomplice , and if she tells you that she has said and done what you have written down -- lower thy head , proud Hun ! '' The two friends returned to the house opposite to the Assumption and found the somnambulist , who in her waking state did not recognize Doctor Minoret .