He had scarcely entered the queen's presence before she said to him: "Well, Mr.Assessor, have you seen my brother ?" Swedenborg answered no, and the queen rejoined: "If you do see him, greet him for me." In saying this she meant no more than a pleasant jest, and had no thought whatever of asking him for information about her brother.

Eight days later (not twenty-four as stated, nor was the audience a private one), Swedenborg again came to court, but so early that the queen had not left her apartment called the White Room, where she was conversing with her maids-of-honor and other ladies attached to the court.

Swedenborg did not wait until she came forth, but entered the said room and whispered something in her ear.

The queen, overcome with amazement, was taken ill, and it was some time before she recovered herself.

When she did so she said to those about her: "Only God and my brother knew the thing that he has just spoken of." She admitted that it related to her last correspondence with the prince on a subject which was known to them alone.