“She spoke of a mouse as though soon they might come to the house where they had not been, and then they came. She saw this as prophecy. But I had seen secret sign, true and obvious, hidden though it were, here and there, over the preceding days and weeks. And so, too had she. But, keeping this subconscious, she later announced it when, at last, it was about to become consciously obvious — as prophecy. And this is a part of how such deceptions may arise as lead ordinary people to believe they have acquired ‘the sight’.” — an anonymous informant