"I? I haven't left this place." Seeing the uselessness of further questions, we go to bed again, advising her to sleep quietly. Next day I ask her the same question. She is very much astonished and even troubled (she blushes slightly). "How should I dare," said she, "to enter your chamber during the night?" This accusation is very painful to her, and she tries to persuade us by all kinds of insufficient reasons that we are wrong. She denies the whole thing, and I am obliged to admit that she does not remember getting up or _even having conversed with us_ (it was just another somnambulistic state). I take a little table, and direct Eusapia to put her hands on it. "Very well," says she, "John will tell you that I don't lie." I then ask the following questions: "Is it you, John, who came into our sleeping chamber last night?" "No." "Was it the chambermaid?" (I suggest this idea for the express purpose of testing John's veracity.) "No," says he. "Was it the medium herself?" "Yes," says the table.--"No, it is not true," exclaims Eusapia, seeing her hope banished--"Yes," replies the table, forcibly. "Was she in the trance state?" "No." "In her normal state?" "No." "In a spontaneous somnambulistic state?" "Yes." "For what purpose?" "_She was hunting matches; for she was frightened in her sleep, and didn't want to sleep without light._" Sure enough, there were always matches in the drawer opened by Eusapia, except on this particular night. She therefore returned without getting any. While listening to the explanation of the table, Eusapia shrugged her shoulders, but protested no longer. Here, then, is a woman who, from time to time, has the power of passing from one psychical state to another. Is it just to accuse such a creature of premeditated fraud, without the slightest medical and psychological examination, without the least attempt at verification?... M. Ochorowicz adds here that, so far as he is concerned, the phenomena are not produced by a personality different from that of the medium, nor by a new independent occult force; but it is a special psychic condition which permits the vital _dynamism of the medium_ (the astral body of the occultists) _to act at a distance_, under certain exceptional conditions. It is the only hypothesis which seems _necessary in the actual state of our knowledge_. Why does the medium so often try to release her hand? So far as the Cambridge experimenters are concerned, the cause is very simple and always the same: she releases her hand in order to indulge in tricks. As a matter of fact, the reasons why she frees her hand are many and complicated. Dr. Ochorowicz's explanations are as follows: