It has happened as you said.

My God, what can we say to her ?" Meanwhile, Ida was evidently becoming much alarmed at the strange looks bent upon her.

"Perhaps, sir," she said, addressing Dr.Hull, with an appealing accent, "you will tell me how I came in this place ?" Then ensued an extraordinary scene of explanation, in which, seconding one another's efforts, striving to hit upon simpler analogies, plainer terms, Paul the doctor, and Miss Ludington sought to make clear to this waif from eternity, so strangely stranded on the shores of Time, the conditions and circumstances under which she had resumed an earthly existence.
For a while she only grew more terrified at their explanations, appearing to find them totally unintelligible, and, though her fears were gradually dissipated by the tenderness of their demeanour, her bewilderment seemed to increase.

For a long time she continued to turn her face, with a pathetic expression of mental endeavour, from one to another, as they addressed her, only to shake her head slowly and sadly at last.
"I seem to have lost myself," she said, pressing her hand to her forehead.

"I do not understand anything you say." "It is a hard matter to understand," replied Dr.Hull.