Then I thought of that scene on the staircase, which had always remained in my mind. I asked if there were any bruises on the hands. "No bruises," said my step-father, "either on hands or face." He thought that I fancied that my uncle had fallen from his horse. Soon afterwards my sister - the sister who had been in my dream - came to see me, and brought me a ring which my uncle had always worn on his left hand. I was very thankful for this memento of him; and I told my sister how I had feared that the ring would have been forgotten. "I only came just in time," she said, "they were just going to close the coffin." "Was there any bruise on the left hand ? " I asked. At first she said there was not; but then she said she thought there was a bluish discoloration across the back of the first joints of the fingers. She did not know how it had been caused. When I was well enough to travel, I went to my old home; there I saw my old nurse, who had been in the house when my uncle died. Her account, added to my step-father's, enabled me to realise the events of that day. My uncle had received my pencil-note on the Sunday morning, and had been greatly pleased, feeling that the wished-for heir was born, and that I, whom he loved as a daughter, was through my trouble.

He had a few friends to lunch with him, including my step-father, and said that he had seen all that he wished to see in life, and could now die happy at any moment. His guests left him in [the] greatest spirits, and two days afterwards he died, and his body had been brought back as I describe, and he had been found half sitting and half lying on that very field-road, where I had three times seen him. He was dressed in the same homespun suit in which I had seen him in my dream. The cause of his death had been heart-disease, of whose existence neither I nor, I believe, any of those near and dear to him had been aware. He had evidently felt faint, and slipped from his horse. The same two men whom I had seen in my dream as helping to carry the body had in fact done so, and my nurse admitted that the left hand had knocked against the banisters. She seemed afraid lest I should blame the men who carried the body, and did not like to speak of the incident. I do not think that she had seen the incident herself; and I did not like to speak to the men about it. It was enough for me that it was on the back of the left hand, as I had seen it in my dream, and as from the arrangement of the staircase it must have been, had it been caused in the way that I saw.

I will add one fact which, although it was purely a matter of my own feeling, made perhaps as much impression upon me as anything in this history. I do not think that any daughter could love a father better than I loved my uncle; and, as will have been seen, the prospect of his death was always a deeply-lying fear. But as soon as I knew that all had happened as my dream foretold, I somehow felt that all was well, and the death left me with a sensation of complete acquiescence and peace. It may have been noticed that there were two unreal or fantastic points in my original dream: - viz., the multitude of flowers in the garden, and the thin covering of snow. I think that I can throw some light on these points by narrating the only two other impressive dreams which I have ever had. The first of these two dreams I mentioned to others, and acted upon it. The second I neither mentioned nor acted upon; so that it has no value as evidence, and is really given as helping to explain the symbolism of snow.

I had heard from several relations (although I cannot quote definite cases), that they had found that dreams of flowers and of snow were followed by deaths in our family. This may have suggested that form of symbolism to my mind; - or the same cause, whatever it was, which acted with them may have acted with me. In any case, what happened was as follows. In 1887 I heard from my stepfather that my mother, who had long been an invalid, was seriously worse; and he asked me when I could go to see her. My mind was therefore occupied with her illness, but the tone of his letter was not immediately alarming; - so that we saw no reason for my not attending some races in the neighbourhood, for which we had friends staying. But one night I dreamt a dream which, though very impressive, was somewhat confused - about my mother seated in a carriage full of flowers. I remembered the symbolism; and I felt assured that my mother was dead or dying. I mentioned the dream to my husband, and prepared for an immediate summons, which came directly afterwards. Having all preparations already made, I left immediately and arrived in time to see my mother die. This dream and that of my uncle are the only two dreams on which I ever acted in any way.

The second dream to which I have alluded was as follows: In 18 - I saw a gentleman whom I knew lying dead in a red coat on an open field, with snow on the ground. Beside him knelt his mother, who was alive and well at the time of the dream. I tried to approach and speak to her; but she said, " Don't touch me; I have come for him." I understood that she had died before him. Two years later this lady did in fact die, and in two years more her son was killed, just as I saw him lying, in a scarlet coat. There was, of course, no snow on the ground, as it was in late spring; so I fancy that the snow may have been symbolical both here and in my dream about my uncle. I may add that I am not of an imaginative temperament; and that these are the only incidents in my life which seem to lie outside ordinary explanations.

My husband and step-father add their confirmation of the incidents which concern them.

The above account is true and accurate in every particular.

[Signatures of Lord and Lady Q].

[Lord Q.'s signature attests (besides his general concurrence with the account) his presence at the interview with Lady Q.'s step-father, as described].

January 16th, 1893. The account is correct so far as what happened when I went to London to inform Lady Q------of her uncle's death, which is all that is within my own personal knowledge. [Signature of Lady Q's. step-father].