“Yes, I have every reason to think so. When I have once caught a person in the act of committing a fraud, I then have the greatest right to suppose that he has repeatedly imposed upon me; and when I am convinced that he has frequently deceived me, I then have the greatest reason to conclude that he has cheated me the last time also.”
“Then you think a real apparition of a ghost to be impossible.”
“Why do you ask that question? All that we have to decide at present, is, whether the Irishman or any man living can effect such an apparition.”
“You want to evade my question.”
“Indeed not!”
“Then tell me, do you think apparitions of ghosts to be possible?”
“Tell me, does not this question imply, that, are men capable of seeing ghosts?”
“Certainly.”
“That I deny.”
“You think that no man living has that capacity.”