Through some fatal neglect, against which they had fairly warned the participants of the seance, the two Orientals had been carried bodily in the astral plane.
"How dreadful!" murmured Mr.Snoop.

"We must have made some awful error." "Are they deastralized ?" murmured Mrs.Buncomhearst.
"Not a doubt of it," said Mr.Snoop.
And then another voice in the group was heard to say, "We must hush it up.

We _can't_ have it known!" On which a chorus of voices joined in, everybody urging that it must be hushed up.
"Couldn't you try to reastralize them ?" said somebody to Mr.Snoop.
"No, no," said Mr.Snoop, still shaking.

"Better not try to.

We must hush it up if we can." And the general assent to this sentiment showed that, after all, the principles of Bahee, or Indifference to Others, had taken a real root in the society.
"Hush it up," cried everybody, and there was a general move towards the hall.
"Good Heavens!" exclaimed Mrs.Buncomhearst; "our wraps!" "Deastralized!" said the guests.
There was a moment of further consternation as everybody gazed at the spot where the ill-fated pile of furs and wraps had lain.
"Never mind," said everybody, "let's go without them--don't stay.