Crossword-Solution: PREL 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Where do they come from? Du Prel and his school say they come from a "subliminal self," and Myers picks up the term and spreads it through Anglo-Saxondom.

And when in dreams _other_ persons tell me things contrary to my firmest convictions, in which things I later discover germs of most important workable truth, the persons who tell me that, and who are different from me as far as fairly decent persons can differ from each other, are certainly not, as the good Du Prel would have us believe, myself.

This last word is sometimes pronounced _prel-ude_ and this pronunciation has some dictionary support, but it is objectionable.

Miss Du Prel was taken to see the scene of the tragedy, and the meeting-room of the Preposterous Society.

Miss Du Prel glanced helplessly at Hadria; rising then and looking out of the window at the dusk, which had come on so rapidly.