A woman telephoned Neville the morning before this lecture to thank him for a request she had made of him on the 29th of December, which he had granted by imagining that she had already called with the good news.

A woman telephoned Neville the previous morning to thank him for an imaginal act he had performed on her behalf after she asked him, on the morning of 29 December, to release her from a problem; he had simply imagined that she had called him with the good news.