Part 2: Pages 125-175 Summary

23 October 1874. Miss Prior stumbles on the British National Association of Spiritualists. They have a library and Miss Prior requests permission to use it. Miss Prior sees a group of wax molds. These molds are reportedly molds made from the faces and hands of spirits who have materialized to mediums during their trances. Among these is the hand of Peter Quick, Selina Dawes' spirit guide. Apparently inspired by this, Miss Prior asks the spiritualist in the library about Selina. This man suggests that Selina's arrest was improper and that her only mistake that night was to bring forth her spirit guide with a woman who was unprepared for the situation.

Miss Prior then reads through some papers produced by the Spiritualist Association. In these papers are the story of Miss Prior's trial. At first, the writer of the articles appears...