Chapter 15: Expiation

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​⁠A severe attack of her "suppressed" enemy, and a nervous headache, the result of the shock of the previous evening, had driven Mrs Ray Jefferson to the Turkish bath as early as ten o'clock the morning after that strange exhibition of Clairvoyance.

She had the rooms all to herself, and as she leant back in her comfortable chair and dabbled her pretty bare feet in warm water; she reflected in a troub