describing the figure to her as accurately as I could.

Her look of surprise grew as I went on, and when I had finished she explained with astonishment: "Why, Mr Troward, where could you have seen my mother? She is an invalid, and I am certain you have never seen her, and yet you have described her most accurately".

Then I told her what I had seen. She asked what I thought was the explanation of the appearance, and the only explanation I could give was that I supposed she was on the lookout for a post and paid us a preliminary visit to see whether ours would suit her, and that, being naturally interested in her welfare, her mother had accompanied her.

Some Reflections

Perhaps you will say: "What came of it?" Well, nothing "came of it", nor did anything "come" of my psychic visits to Edinburgh and Lanercost Abbey. Such occurrences seem to be simple facts in Nature which, though on some occasions connected with premonitions of more or less importance, are by no means necessarily so. They are the functioning of certain faculties which we all possess, but of the nature of which we as yet know very little. It will be noticed that in the first of these