The London Séance Society: A Novel

Morely returns to the Society early the next morning. He finds beeswax on the floor by the visitation log, along with other hints of movement in the night, and he begins to suspect that Vaudeline left her room in the night.

In the morning, Lenna and Vaudeline dress as men to disguise themselves while moving about the Society and the city. Morely confronts them about the evidence of their nighttime activities, and Vaudeline takes the blame. Morely, Beck, Vaudeline, and Lenna go to the home of Mrs. Gray, for whom Volckman performed a séance on the day of his death. Mrs. Gray is initially wary of the group, but she begins to warm to Vaudeline when the medium sits in the same chair that Volckman did and plays with a figurine that the dead man also played with. Vaudeline continues to explore the house, following Volckman’s energy. She, Lenna, and Mrs. Gray go upstairs without Morely and Beck. Mrs. Gray expresses doubts about the validity of the Society’s séances, telling Vaudeline and Lenna that the man who conducted the séance, Mr. Dankworth, tried to sexually assault her after the séance. Fortunately, Volckman caught him. (Mr. Dankworth is also the same medium who conducted Eloise’s séance.