In that time she heard the bridge clock strike two, and a while after said, 'In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, what art thou ?' Thereupon the apparition removed and went away; she slipped on her clothes and followed, but what became on't she cannot tell.
"Mrs.Alexander then walked out of doors till six, when she persuaded some neighbours to let her in.

She told her adventure; they failed to persuade her that she had dreamed it.

On the same day the neighbour's wife, Mrs.Sweet, went to West Mulling, saw Mrs.Goffe before her death, and heard from Mrs.Goffe's mother the story of the daughter's dream of her children, Mrs.Sweet not having mentioned the nurse's story of the apparition." That poor Mrs.Goffe walked to Rochester and returned undetected, a distance of eighteen miles is difficult to believe.
Goethe has an obiter dictum on the possibility of intercommunion without the aid of the ordinary senses, between the souls of lovers.
Something of the kind is indicated in anecdotes of dreams dreamed in common by husband and wife, but, in such cases, it may be urged that the same circumstance, or the same noise or other disturbing cause, may beget the same dream in both.

A better instance is THE VISION OF THE BRIDE Colonel Meadows Taylor writes, in The Story of my Life (vol.ii., p.
32): "The determination (to live unmarried) was the result of a very curious and strange incident that befel me during one of my marches to Hyderabad.

I have never forgotten it, and it returns to this day to my memory with a strangely vivid effect that I can neither repel nor explain.