Five years earlier, a friend of Neville's had fallen on hard times and could not repay money he owed; rather than ever raising the debt, Neville periodically imagined his friend restored and able to pay him back, staying in affectionate contact all the while. The week before this lecture, on a Wednesday, Neville constructed a specific imaginal scene of his friend visiting with his wife and repaying the debt; that Friday evening the friend called, came to the lecture with his wife, and afterward, at Neville's home, the wife took a $1,200 check from her purse and gave it to him just minutes before they left.