This lady, Miss Baillie, had scarcely any success with the ball.

She lent it to Miss Leslie, who saw a large, square, old- fashioned red sofa covered with muslin, which she found in the next country house she visited.

Miss Baillie's brother, a young athlete (at short odds for the amateur golf championship), laughed at these experiments, took the ball into the study, and came back looking "gey gash".

He admitted that he had seen a vision, somebody he knew "under a lamp".

He would discover during the week whether he saw right or not.