Hush! Our wonderful little brother wake up--quite right this time." Then Godfrey really opened his eyes; hitherto he had been feigning to be still in trance, but thought it wisest to say nothing.

At this moment Miss Ogilvy turned very pale and went into a kind of light faint.
The Professor produced some kind of smelling-bottle from his pocket, which he held to her nostrils.

She came to at once, and began to laugh at her own silliness, but begged them all to go away and leave her quiet, which they did.

Godfrey was going too, but she stopped him, saying that the carriage would not be ready till after tea, and that it was too wet for him to walk in the garden, for now autumn had come in earnest.

The tea arrived, a substantial tea, with poached eggs, of which she made him eat two, as she did always after these sittings.
Then suddenly she asked him if he had seen anything.