Further rascally attempts were a failure in better-situated houses. The
terror of hearing a voice suddenly is in those circumstances very great;
against one in good health it is less, no doubt. The trouble given at
B---- was particularly great in the case of Miss Moore,[23] who scarcely
slept for a week; she was Miss Freer's comrade in No. 1, the S.W. corner
room of the house at B----, and the most exposed room where voices were
chiefly heard; and that, too, by almost every one who slept there, Miss
N., the Rev. Mr. Q., Father MacL., and Madame Boisseaux. The road ran
nearest to it there. The writer believes that the remarkable fact that
No. 1, the S.W. room, No. 2, the W. room, No. 3, the N.W. room, showed a
far higher average of phenomena than the other five--_i.e._ the three
eastern and the north and south centre rooms--is accounted for by the
following circumstances.

[Footnote 23: "Alleged Haunting of B---- House," p. 118.]

No. 8, the south room, was much exposed, but unlike No. 1, it had no door
in a line with another door and a window. Upon No. 1 an almost direct
attack could be made from northward or southward; for the partition walls
of the house, as well as the outer walls, were very thick.[24]

[Footnote 24: "Alleged Haunting of B---- House," p. 94; _ibid._,
p. 140, _note_.]

In the new part of the house these were less so, but people in them were
less affected than had been the case when the H. family stayed there.

Rooms Nos. 1, 2, and 3 could be raked from north or south. Nearly all the
persons in the house were affected, and leaving out one or two men who
objected to being reported, it appears that the ladies, who spent in the