She gave me the letter. It began abruptly, without any preliminary form of address, as follows⁠—

“Do you believe in dreams? I hope, for your own sake, that you do. See what Scripture says about dreams and their fulfilment (Genesis 40:8, 41:25; Daniel 4:18⁠–⁠25), and take the warning I send you before it is too late.

“Last night I dreamed about you, Miss Fairlie. I dreamed that I was standing inside the communion rails of a church⁠—I on one side of the altar-table, and the clergyman, with his surplice and his prayerbook, on the other.