with
new wine.

"After visiting at her house many times, I conceived the impression that
for some cause she took a great interest in me, not because I was a
young man, but for some other reason.

"Sometimes I would visit the family and she would not be at home, and
late in the evening she would return all alone. She would go anywhere at
any time. I have seen her late at night walking through the slums of
Calcutta all alone. She was free in the truest sense of the word, not
being in bondage to her material form, or in recognizing family or
social standing; she had no superstitions; she was above and beyond them
all. I noticed she was loved very much by her parents and brother, and
seemed to possess a deep affectionate nature herself. Her peculiar
qualities were fully recognized by the family, she having no household
duties to perform, only as the notion might take her.

"I was always a welcomed guest at the house, and I felt as much at home
as if I were a member of their family.

"After I had known the family about a year, I called at the house one
evening just about the time it was getting dark. Wavernee was sitting in
the door-way. She seemed very pleased to see me and invited me in,
saying: 'The other members of the family are all away.'

"The room we went into we entered at its center, and she turned to the
left and walked to the end of the room. She gave me a seat so that I sat
at the extreme end of the room. She closed the door and took a low seat
on my left. To my great surprise, she commenced a conversation about
common things, and talked as interestingly as any intelligent young lady
would talk. We chatted about fifteen minutes, and by that time the room
was dark so I could not see one object from another.

"She became silent and I received an impression that she did not wish me
to speak, so we both sat in the silence for about ten minutes, when the
room became illuminated and she herself seemed to be the brightest
object in it. I never saw a room so bright as that in my life. After a
few minutes everything in the room appeared dark except the wall at the
further end; and where it was light there seemed to be a white covering
such as is used for magic lantern pictures. I was looking at it when
there appeared a picture which covered the whole cloth. It represented
men and women of all tribes and nations bending beneath heavy loads of
bondage. I observed their bondages were not all the same. There was a
dif