The fact that Mrs.Legrand suffers from heart disease makes seances not only more exhausting for her than for other mediums, but really dangerous.

I have told her, as a physician, and other physicians have told her, that she is liable at any time to die in a trance." Paul now spoke for the first time since the conclusion of the seance.
"What do you fancy would be the effect on the spirit if a medium should die during a materialization, as you have supposed ?" he inquired.
"That can only be a matter of theory," replied Dr.Hull; "the accident has never happened." "But it might happen." "Yes, it might happen." "Is not the spirit as much dependent on the medium for dematerializing and resuming the spirit-form, as for materializing ?" asked Paul.
"I see what you mean," said Dr.Hull.

"You think that in case the medium should die during a materialization, the spirit might be left in a materialized state.

How does it strike you, Mrs.Legrand ?" "I don't know," replied that lady, with her eyes closed.

"Spirits require our aid as much to lay aside their bodies as to assume them.