Well he is taller than you, isn't he? (Yes.) Not very demonstrative before strangers. But when alone with you, like a little boy again. M. F. A. L.--I don't think he was undemonstrative before strangers. Oh yes, all you English are like that. You lock up your affection, and you sometimes lose the key. He laughs. He says you didn't understand about Rowland. He can get it through now, it's a Roland for your Oliver [p. 131]. [Excellent. By recent marriages the family has gained a Rowland (son-in-law) and lost (so to speak) an Oliver (son).] He is going. He gives his love to all. It has been easy for him to come for two reasons: First, because you came to get help for Madame.[18] Secondly, because he had the knowledge in this life. M. F. A. L.--I hope it has been a pleasure to him to come? Not a pleasure, a joy. M. F. A. L.--I hope he will come to me again. As much as he can. Paul now wants to speak to his mother. _Appendix to First Peters Sitting_ NOTE ON RAYMOND'S OLD ATTITUDE TO PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA Mrs. Rowland Waterhouse has recently found among her papers an old letter from Bedales School which she received from her brother Raymond when she was in Paris during the winter 1905-1906. The concluding part of it is of some small interest in the light of later developments:-- "I should like to hear more about table turning. I don't believe in it. The girls here say they have done it at Steephurst, and they attribute it to some sense of which we know nothing, and which I want to turn to some account, driving a dynamo or something, if it is possible, as they make out, to cause a table to revolve without any exertion.--I am your affectionate brother, "RAYMOND." [Footnote 13: Though K. K.'s record, being made at the time, reads L. L. (meaning Lady Lodge) throughout. When she speaks, later on, I change the L. L. of the record to her proper initials to avoid confusion.--O. J. L.] [Footnote 14: This is clear, though apparently it was not so recognised at the time. See later, pp. 135 and 144.] [Footnote 15: Let it be understood, once for all, that remarks in square brackets represent nothing said at the time, but are comments afterwards by me when I read the record.--O. J. L.] [Footnote 16: The photograph episode is described above, in Chapter IV, in the light of later information.] [Footnote 17: Now apparently called Lily: see later.] [Footnote 18: This is curious, because it was with Mrs. Leonard that Madame had sat, not with Peters at all. It is a simple cross-correspondence.] CHAPTER VIII A TABLE SITTING