For the present he can only speak with you through Giuditta Astarita, who is now asleep." "Is she asleep ?" asked Matilde.
"She is in a trance," the voice replied.

"I speak through her, but when she awakes, she will not know what I have said.

The spirits come to her directly sometimes, when she is awake, and they torment her.

Bosio has been coming to her often, and has made her suffer, until she wrote to you.

The spirits themselves suffer when they wish to communicate with the living, and cannot." "What are you ?" inquired Matilda.
"I am Giuditta's familiar.