Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?

The nocebo effect can be observed even when people take real, non-placebo drugs.

'You were a geisha?' she breathed. If her interest was feigned, she deserved an Academy Award.

[…] the fire which was to have lasted to the end of them, before which in the days before he was able to buy the stove he would enter after his four-mile walk from the mill and find her, the shape of her narrow back and haunches squatting, one narrow spread hand shielding her face from the blaze over which the other hand held the skillet, had already fallen to a dry, light soilure of dead ashes when the sun rose yesterday […]