The rest of the family (Mr.Wesley always excepted) "heard a strange knocking in divers places," chiefly in the green room, or nursery, where (apparently) Hetty, Patty and Keziah lay.

Emily heard the noises later than some of her sisters, perhaps a week after the original groans.

She was locking up the house about ten o'clock when a sound came like the smashing and splintering of a huge piece of coal on the kitchen floor.

She and Sukey went through the rooms on the ground floor, but found the dog asleep, the cat at the other end of the house, and everything in order.

From her bedroom Emily heard a noise of breaking the empty bottles under the stairs, but was going to bed, when Hetty, who had been sitting on the lowest step of the garret stairs beside the nursery door, waiting for her father, was chased into the nursery by a sound as of a man passing her in a loose trailing gown.