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That Mrs. Coote's ' vision ' occurred within a week of the death of Mrs. W., in Boston, U.S., is undoubted ; and without any efibrt to make our memories more precise, I may add, that from the first I have always thought that the most marked feature in the case was (judging, of course, from an opinion formed at the time when the circumstances were fresh in my memory) that it occurred within the 24 hours after death. I am afraid after this lapse of time that nothing conclusive can be arrived at as to ' times ' in the other two cases, beyond the general idea that still 182 COLLECTIVE CASES. [chap. obtains in the minds of both the aged Mrs. B. and Mrs. , that the visions occurred about the same time as that of Mrs. Coote, and after the same manner. Mrs. Coote desires me to add that to this hour she has never exchanged ideas upon this vision, even with the aged Mrs. B., which precludes all possibility of collusion in the matter.