nd went to bed, burying my head under the bedclothes.

"The post next day brought a letter from Mrs. M. saying that she was
coming by eleven o'clock. I was too frightened to stay in the house, and
I went to my father and told him what I had seen. He told me to go back
and hear what Mrs. M. had to say about the matter. When Mrs. M. arrived
I told her what I had seen on the preceding evening. She laughed, and
said, 'Oh! I was here then, was I? I did not expect to come here.' With
that exception I have seen no apparition whatever, or had any
hallucination of any kind, neither have I seen the apparition of Mrs. M.
again."

After hearing this statement I asked Mrs. M. what she meant by the
remark she had made on hearing Miss C.'s explanation of what she had
witnessed. My hostess replied, "That night when I passed into the trance
state, and lay down on the couch in the sitting-room at Hindhead, I did
so with the desire of visiting my husband, who was in his retreat at
Wimbledon. That, I should say, was between nine and half-past. After I
came out of the trance I was conscious that I had been somewhere, but I
did not know where. I started from Hindhead for Wimbledon, but landed at
M---- Mansions, where, no doubt, I was more at home." "Then you had no
memory of where you had been?" "Not the least." "And what about the
shawl?" "The shawl was one that Miss C. had never seen. I had not worn
it for two years, and the fact that she saw it and described it, is
conclusive evidence against the subjective character of the vision. The
originals of all the phantom clothes were at M---- Mansions at the time
Miss C. saw me wearing them. I was not wearing the shawl. At the time
when she saw it on my Thought Body it was folded up and put away in a
wardrobe in an adjoining room. She had never seen it." I asked Miss C.
what was the appearance of Mrs. M. She replied, "She just looked as she
does always, only much more beautiful." "How do you account," said I to
my hostess, "for the change in colour of the silk front from grey to
amber?" She replied, "It was a freak."

I then asked Mr. C., the father of the last witness, what had occurred
in his wife's experience. Here is the statement which his wife made to
him, and which he says is absolutely reliable. "I was staying at
Hindhead, in the lodge connected with the house in which you are
staying. I was in some trouble, and Mrs. M. had been somewhat anxious
about me. I had gone to sleep, but was s