Remembering what your brother and I once were to each other in the bygone time, I can understand the apparition making itself visible to me, to claim the mercy of Christian burial, and the vengeance due to a crime.

I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory--that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside.

But what I do not understand is, that I should have passed through that dreadful ordeal; having no previous knowledge of the murdered man in his lifetime, or only knowing him (if you suppose that I saw the apparition of Ferrari) through the interest which I took in his wife.

I can't dispute your reasoning, Henry.

But I feel in my heart of hearts that you are deceived.
Nothing will shake my belief that we are still as far from having discovered the dreadful truth as ever.' Henry made no further attempt to dispute with her.