"After having deposited B. near her home, we went back to the Latin Quarter with the carriage. On reaching the Rue de Vaugirard, before the gate of the Luxembourg, I felt myself seized by a terror intense as it was absurd. The street was admirably lighted, there was not a single passer-by, and the Quarter at that hour (just about midnight) is perfectly safe. Moreover, this fright did not seem to depend on any cause. It was fear just for fear. 'It is absurd,' said I, 'I am frightened, very much frightened; it is certainly a trick of B.'s.' My friend laughed at me, and almost immediately, 'Why, it is taking hold of me also. I am trembling with fear. It is very disagreeable.' The impression lasted until we were in front of the gate of the Luxembourg Palace; we got out of the carriage at the corner of the Rue Soufflot and the Boulevard Saint-Michel. As soon as we set foot on the ground: 'Look,' said P., 'don't you see something white floating in the air, there, just in front of our eyes; it has gone.' I saw nothing, but I felt very strongly the _influence_ of B. "The next day I met her at the hospital. 'Well! you saw nothing?' I begged her to tell me what we ought to have seen. This was her answer: 'First, your driver lost his way--oh! not you, you felt nothing; he took you by all sorts of queer ways.' It is a fact that our carriage, from the Rue de Babylone, had gone by a very complicated way, and one which, at the time, did not seem to me the right one, but I should not like to say anything definite about it. 'After that you were frightened.' (Which of us?) 'You at first, M. P. afterwards. Oh, yes! afraid of nothing at all, without any reason, but you were very frightened. Then you saw some white pigeons flying round you, quite near.' I had never heard her speak of this hallucination. As to the fright, that subject was familiar to her, and she has frightened me several times, deliberately, as I have related." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 57: An experiment of another kind, the description of which is here omitted, had been made on the morning of this day.] [Footnote 58: An account of these experiments is also contained in an article by M. Richet in the _Revue de l'Hypnotisme_ for February 1888.] [Footnote 59: M. Richet also took part in these two experiments.] [Footnote 60: It is not stated whether the hour of the experiment was chosen by lot, but this precaution was taken in many of the earlier experiments.] [Footnote 61: An account of these experiments was also contributed by M. Richet to the _Revue de l'Hypnotisme_, Feb. 1888.] [Footnote 62: _Revue Philosophique_, February and April 1886. A translation of these accounts is given in the _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. v. pp. 222, 223.] [Footnote 63: _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, vol. iii. pp. 257-267.] [Footnote 64: Dr. Latour's brother, house-surgeon at the hospital.]