Seven lectures (27, 1127, 1140, 1186, 1853, 1911, 2061), and Neville uses it whenever he wants a case where every conventional means had already been exhausted. A woman of means - and at 1127 he adds that she had been committed as a violent, incurable case in a mental hospital years before, which the maid knew - left a furnished home and a maid in New York and spent nine months in Paris with her children. She came back to an empty apartment. The maid had moved everything into storage and intended to wait a safe year before selling it. The woman went to the police, to private detectives, to everything in the world that you could call the right thing to do; they went from borough to borough and from warehouse to warehouse, and nothing was found. It never occurred to her to come to Neville first: she went to the authorities first. Then they sat in the Silence and she assumed she was sitting in her own place, rent paid, the lovely pictures of her children on the piano and everything where it ought to be. Afterwards she went down to her bank on Madison Avenue and, coming out, turned in the wrong direction; one block later she was looking at a familiar pair of ankles, and it was the maid. She held her, made no scene, put her in a taxicab and had her take her to the furniture. The detail that carries the reading is the wrong turn - the means was a mistake she made herself - which is why he attaches it to the rule that one could never have devised the way it comes. At 1911 and 2061 he states what was and was not done: all we did was to simply trust the Lord our God; we didn't get down on our knees and plead for help, but simply sat in the silence and imagined.

CORRECTION, 2026-09-20. The first version of this record named four lectures. The attach lane found seven; the count and the list here are theirs.