After calling to Jack and finding him asleep, Georgia sees the dream has started. Albert rises from his sleep and finds himself sitting in a bosun’s chair, anchored to the moon and ready to swing. Georgia leaps on his back, clinging on with arms and legs as the swing into space. They swing out over distinctive geology, maybe Dartmoor following a river (the Teign), then down a hanging valley to the house at a place like Maidencombe.
They meet the ghost rider. She appears as white vapours or whatever then coalesce into a woman on horseback. She rides wildly, and does backflips with the horse. She rears the horse at them and tries to scare them in all sorts of ways. The horse is distinctively unkempt, but with oddly friendly eyes.
They report the dream to Thomas Grand.
Thomas Grand (actor, lawyer, all around academic savant), having consulted his library on geology and rivers, and located the likely setting, proposes they travel as an American abolitionist with his band of do-gooders. “Asking for donations to a worthy cause will be our surest course for being left alone. I shall play the part of …“
“Shakespeare himself will bless your venture!” blurts out Jack.