He recognised the description, and he accompanied her to the church on a dark night, starting at one o'clock.

She stayed alone, without a light, in the locked-up church from 1.20 to 1.45, when he let her out.
There now remained no doubt that Mrs.Claughton had really gone to Meresby, a long and disagreeable journey, and had been locked up in the church alone at a witching hour.
Beyond this point we have only the statements of Mrs.Claughton, made to Lord Bute, Mr.Myers and others, and published by the Society for Psychical Research.

She says that after arranging the alarm bell on Monday night (October 9-10) she fell asleep reading in her dressing- gown, lying outside her bed.

She wakened, and found the lady of the white shawl bending over her.

Mrs.Claughton said: "Am I dreaming, or is it true ?" The figure gave, as testimony to character, a piece of information.