WHAT HAPPENED AT VERSAILLES ?
Stn,—May I protest against Mr. Walter Wig- field's totally irresponsible statement in your last issue that the experiences of Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain at Versailles, described in An Adventure, were a leg-pull"? He hints that Miss Moberly admitted the hoax in her last illness. She died in 1937, at the age of ninety-one. Her memory failed towards the end; there was a time when she only remem- bered her childhood and girlhood; but so long as her memory endured, she maintained her faith in the genuineness of the experience and her interest in its implications. Whatever ex- planation of their 'Adventure' be accepted, this one is not tenable. Both believed in their experience; and had Mr. Wigfield had the honour of knowing them, he would have known that their standards of honesty and good manners would have precluded them
from indulging in anything so vulgar as a leg-pull:—Yours faithfully,
JOAN EVANS Thousand Acres, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
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