The peculiar knock which was his own, 1-23456-7, was not successfully echoed at that time.

Mr.Wesley then returned to the nursery, which was as tapageuse as ever.

The children, three, were trembling in their sleep.

Mr.Wesley invited the agency to an interview in his study, was answered by one knock outside, "all the rest were within," and then came silence.

Investigations outside produced no result, but the latch of the door would rise and fall, and the door itself was pushed violently back against investigators.
"I have been with Hetty," says Emily, "when it has knocked under her, and when she has removed has followed her," and it knocked under little Kezzy, when "she stamped with her foot, pretending to scare Patty." Mr.Wesley had requested an interview in his study, especially as the Jacobite goblin routed loudly "over our heads constantly, when we came to the prayers for King George and the prince".