These approaches were doubtless most dangerous on railway journeys;
hypnotism acts better in a small room than in a large one, and therefore
a person in a railway carriage is more affected. Here discomfort and
oppression helps hypnotism, but the hypnotist if in the train is in a
favourable position, as the distance is preserved very closely and need
not be very great.

Carriages are of the same size, and this is doubtless a help to the
operator. The frequency of phenomena being observed on the night of
arrival has been noticed. Miss N., who drove over, was not affected.
The average recurrence of phenomena to each person was every fourth
night; other people besides those previously mentioned as suffering on
first nights, were on the second visit Miss Langton and Miss Duff.
The latter was only very restless. This resembles the experimental result
obtained by Mr. Rose; he attempted to impress two ladies in the same
house: the elder saw his apparition, the younger was only restless.[26]

[Footnote 26: "Podmore," p. 252.]

It may be noted that in intercourse with other people, some effort is
commonly made to secure their attention; this no doubt is connected with
the greater facility for causing one's own apparition to be presented.

Thus to resume the question of place of hypnotism, on the second sojourn
four people suffered in the night of first arrival. Was the gang larger,
or were the assailants operators who had been afraid of the cold before?

Possibly Miss Langton had been followed to St. Andrews, where she had
spent Easter, and had a vision of the phantom nun. In other cases where
the absence had been longer only two people were attacked.