On Monday he tried again, and he thought he had frightened her, as after looking at him for a few minutes she fell back in her chair in a kind of faint.

Her little brother was in the room with her at the time.

On Tuesday next the young lady wrote, telling Mr.Cleave that she had been startled by seeing him on Friday evening (this is an error), and again on Monday evening, "much clearer," when she nearly fainted.
All this Mr.Sparks wrote to Mr.Gurney in the same week.

He was inviting instructions on hypnotic experiments, and "launched a letter into space," having read something vague about Mr.Gurney's studies in the newspapers.

The letter, after some adventures, arrived, and on 15th March Mr.Cleave wrote his account, Mr.Darley and Mr.Thurgood corroborating as to their presence during the trance and as to Mr.
Cleave's statement when he awoke.