The three maids and a temporary servant, M——­, belonging to the district, went up to their rooms about 10.30.  The two housemaids sleep together [in Z], Lizzie, the kitchenmaid, separately, in a room adjoining [in Y].  Directly after getting into bed all heard knockings, and they called out between the rooms to each other.  Lizzie stayed awake, and looking up towards the ceiling had what sounds like a hypna-gogic hallucination, of a cloud which changed rapidly in colour, shape, and size, and alarmed her greatly.  Then she felt her clothes pulled off, but thought this might be accidental, and tucked them in.  Then she was sure they were pulled off again, and screamed to the other maids.  Neither dared go to her, her screams were so terrifying; but they finally opened the door of communication between the rooms, and Carter went to fetch the temporary assistant from the other end of the corridor, “because she was such a good-living girl” (particular about fasting in Lent, I gather).  The three then returned for the kitchenmaid, and all spent the night in the housemaid’s room.

   The upper housemaid went to Miss Langton’s room this morning, I
   hear, much upset and crying, and there can be no doubt of the
   conviction of all the maids.

   For the future they wish to occupy one room.

The cook, sleeping on the ground floor below No. 3, heard footsteps and knockings, and awoke her husband, but he heard nothing.  She diagnosed it as being “about the door of Miss ‘Duff’s’ room (No. 3 above).  She thought it was outside of her door, but was not sure.  It was just after midnight.

   Miss “Duff” writes on the same day:—­

“Last night I had just got into bed, when I heard footsteps, so, always on the alert for phenomena, I listened and was relieved (? disappointed would be better!) to hear Mr. ——­ cough, so I settled down to sleep.  A quarter of an hour or twenty minutes later (about twelve o’clock) I again heard steps, but this time they came from the back-stair and shuffled past my room, and then I heard a loud fall against what seemed to me the door of room No. 1, which is practically next door to mine.[E]

“I went to listen, but not a sound was to be heard, and I saw no one.  It could not have been the gentleman who was occupying that room [Mr. W——­], as I heard him (with others) come up a quarter of an hour later and go into his room.  Although the fall seemed against the door of No. 1, I must add that the depth and quality of the noise was as if a large body had fallen far away, of which we only, as it were, heard the echo, but that quite distinctly on the door of No. 1.”

   [Miss Langton testifies to being disturbed by the same sounds in
   No. 2, the dressing-room between Miss “Duff’s” room and Mr.
   W——­’s.]

   Miss “Duff” continues:—­