She can, by an act of volition, become hypnotic, clairvoyant--whatever you choose to call it.

Or, if her visitor is at all sensitive, she can reverse the situation and play the part of the hypnotiser.

I never heard of a like case." "After all, I do not see why it should not be so," said the Wanderer thoughtfully.

"At all events, whatever she can do, is evidently done by hypnotism, and such extraordinary experiments have succeeded of late--" "I did not say that there was nothing but hypnotism in her processes." "What then?
Magic ?" The Wanderer's lip curled scornfully.
"I do not know," replied the little man, speaking slowly.

"Whatever her secret may be, she keeps it, even when speaking in sleep.