But the butterfly was sometimes mistaken: not in the general direction, but concerning the precise position of the attractive object.

I have mentioned that the nursery on the other side of the house to my study, which was the actual goal of the visitors, was full of butterflies before a light was taken into it.

These were certainly incorrectly informed.

In the kitchen there was the same crowd of seekers gone astray; but there the light of a lamp, an irresistible attraction to nocturnal insects, might have diverted the pilgrims.
Let us consider only such areas as were in darkness.

There the pilgrims were numerous.