No harm came of it to anybody.
The story would be better if Mr.Wilkins, junior, like Laud, had kept a nocturnal of his dreams, and published his father's letter, with post-marks.
The story of the lady who often dreamed of a house, and when by chance she found and rented it was recognised as the ghost who had recently haunted it, is good, but is an invention! A somewhat similar instance is that of the uproar of moving heavy objects, heard by Scott in Abbotsford on the night preceding and the night of the death of his furnisher, Mr.Bullock, in London.

The story is given in Lockhart's Life of Scott, and is too familiar for repetition.
On the whole, accepting one kind of story on the same level as the other kind, the living and absent may unconsciously produce the phenomena of haunted houses just as well as the dead, to whose alleged performances we now advance.

Actual appearances, as we have said, are not common, and just as all persons do not hear the sounds, so many do not see the appearance, even when it is visible to others in the same room.

As an example, take a very mild and lady-like case of haunting.
THE GIRL IN PINK The following anecdote was told to myself, a few months after the curious event, by the three witnesses in the case.

They were connections of my own, the father was a clergyman of the Anglican Church; he, his wife and their daughter, a girl of twenty, were the "percipients".