“You don’t seem to bring any influence with you. I get no impression. I am sorry, but we can’t command these things. I get the name Edmund. Was that his name?”
“No.”
“Or Albert?”
“No.”
“I am sorry, but it seems confused—cross vibrations, perhaps and a mix-up of messages like crossed telegraph wires.”
“Does the name Pedro help you?”
“Pedro! Pedro! No, I get nothing. Was Pedro an elderly man?”
“No, not elderly.”
“I can get no impression.”
“It was about this girl of mine that I really wanted advice. My husband would have told me what to do. She has got engaged to a young man, a fitter by trade, but there are one or two things against it and I want to know what to do.”