TRENT (_by arm-chair_ L.C.). You haven't given her a hint of any sort?
MASON (_above table_ R.). Madame la Grange.
MASON. I know a man who saw Palladino lift a table just by putting her hands on it.
(ROSALIE _points to a small console table_ R. _end of settee_--_it has a lamp on it_. MISS EASTWOOD _is at the_ L. _end of chesterfield_.)
ROSALIE (_putting hand-bag on chair above table_ R.). Will someone please take the lamp off that table? And will you bring it to me 'ere?
(MISS STANDISH _moves to and takes the lamp and holds it_. MASON _brings console table to_ ROSALIE _who comes down_ C.--_the wide side of the table to audience_. ROSALIE _puts her hands on table with her thumbs under its edge and lifts the table and turns right and left_.)
ROSALIE. In the dark you would not 'ave noticed my thumbs.
(_All laugh_. Miss ERSKINE _is seated at the back of the table over_ R.)
But it can be done, it can be done. I do not say that I can do it in the light, but if you want I will try.
ALL. Oh, yes, yes, of course, please do--yes, yes!
ROSALIE (_getting back of console table. Turning table around--narrow side to audience_). I mean like this.
(_She places the tips of the fingers of both hands on the_ C. _of the table and stands rigid for a few moments. No one speaks. All watch her with breathless interest. Slowly the table tips a little to one side, and then tips in the opposite direction. Then it slowly rises about a foot from the floor, and then drops suddenly and falls over. There is a long pause_.)
WALES (L.C., _quietly_). What did I tell you?
(_There is a long pause, all turn towards_ ROSALIE _to see what she will do next_. MASON _takes console table back to its place to the_ R. _end of the chesterfield_. TRENT _and_ MRS. TRENT _are over_ L. STANDISH _and_ CROSBY C.)
ROSALIE (C.). Now you all do know what I can do, but I can trick you too; so you will 'ave to take my word for it that I will not. I am not making to you any promises. I will go into the trance for you and it will be the real trance and not a fake. My spirit does control a little girl named Laughing Eyes.
CROSBY. Are you asking us to believe that the spirit of a dead child--
ROSALIE (C.). To them that believe there is no death. Your own religion teaches you that.