Mr. L---- F---- couldn't come, and as Mr. F---- and I went on
alone, we met Mr. MacP---- and Mr. C---- returning before they
were expected. On the spur of the moment I asked Mr. C---- to
come with me, leaving Mr. F---- and Mr. MacP---- in the avenue.
The snow had gone, and I saw less distinctly; but I saw the nun
again, and an older woman in grey, who talked earnestly with
her, she answering at intervals. I could hear no words; the ice
was giving, and the burn had begun to murmur. (I tried to
persuade myself that the murmur accounted for the voices, but
the sounds were entirely distinct, and different in quality and
amount.)

This older woman in grey afterwards became familiar. The name "Marget"
was given to her at first half in fun and simply because this was one
of the two names given by Ouija (_cf._ p. 98). She is apparently the
grey woman referred to in the paper published by Mrs. G---- (_cf._ p.
64).

The fact of voices being heard by two persons, while one alone saw the
figures, seems a clear proof that the figures were hallucinatory. It
seems probable that the sounds also were hallucinatory, but were what
is called in the vocabulary of the S.P.R. the "collective"
hallucination of two persons. This seems to render it highly probable
that in the case of each the hallucination had a cause external to
both, although common to both; moreover, hallucinations are often
contagious. _The Times_ correspondent states, that "the lady admitted
that the apparition was purely subjective, but in regard to other
matters was not willing to suppose that she might be the victim of
hallucinations of hearing as well as of sight." On the contrary, as
all readers of Miss Freer's published works are aware, she is entirely