What a useful life you have led, and will lead. You have always been the prop of things. You have always been associated with men a lot. You are the mother and house prop. You are not unacquainted with spiritualism. You have been associated with it more or less for some time. I sense you as living away from London--in the North or North-West. You are much associated with men, and you are the house prop--the mother. You have no word in the language that quite gives it--there are always four walls, but something more is needed--you are the house prop. You have had a tremendous lot of sadness recently, from a death that has come suddenly. You never thought it was to be like this. (Peters went on talking glibly, and there was no need for the sitter to say anything.) There is a gentleman here who is on the other side--he went very suddenly. Fairly tall, rather broad, upright (here the medium sat up very straight and squared his shoulders)--rather long face, fairly long nose, lips full, moustache, nice teeth, quick and active, strong sense of humour--he could always laugh, keen sense of affection. He went over into the spirit world very quickly. There is no idea of death because it was so sudden, with no illness. Do you know anything connected with the letter L? (No answer was given to this.) What I am going to say now is from Paul--he says: "Tell mother it is not one L, it is double L." He says: "Tell mother she always loved a riddle"--he laughs. (L. L. and K. K. both said they could not understand.[13] 'Moonstone' continued:--) They don't want to make it too easy for you, and funnily enough, the easier it seems to you sometimes the more difficult it seems to them. This man is a soldier--an officer. He went over where it is warm. You are his mother, aren't you--and he does not call you ma, or mamma, or mater--just mother, mother. [True.] He is reticent and yet he told you a tremendous lot. You were not only his mother but his friend. Wasn't he clever with books? He laughs and says: "Anyhow I ought to be, I was brought up with them." He was not altogether a booky person. He knew of spiritualism before he passed over, but he was a little bit sceptical--he had an attitude of carefulness about it. He tells me to tell you this: The attitude of Mr. Stead and some of those people turned him aside; on one side there was too much credulity--on the other side too much piffling at trifles. [See also Appendix to this sitting.] He holds up in his hand a little heap of olives, as a symbol for you--then he laughs. Now he says--for a test--Associated with the olives is the word Roland.[14] All of this is to give you proof that he is here. Before you came you were very down in the dumps. Was he ill three weeks after he was hurt? [More like three hours, probably less.] (Various other guesses were made for the meaning of 3.)