"It would be idle now to seek to pry into the mystery which was thus anxiously guarded," says Dr.Robertson, editor of the queen's inventories.

The doctor knew nothing of the vision which, perhaps, so nearly pried into the mystery.

There is nothing like proof here, but there is just a presumption that the diamonds connected with Rizzio, and secretly worn by the queen, seen in the vision of 1845, are possibly the diamonds which, had Mary died in 1566, were to be carried by Joseph Rizzio to a person whose name might not safely be written.

{35a} We now take a dream which apparently reveals a real fact occurring at a distance.

It is translated from Brierre de Boismont's book, Des Hallucinations {35b} (Paris, 1845).