Episode 253: Buried Alive
Morbid
The Death of Sir William Lockhart
Sir William Lockhart had been extremely ill and life was at last supposed to be extinct. As it afterwards turned out, he was merely in a quote, dead faint or trance. The female relatives were assembled for the chesting, the act of putting a corpse into a coffin with the entertainment given on such melancholy occasions. But when the servants were about to enter to assist in the ceremonies, isabella Somerville, Sir William's great granddaughter and Mrs Lockhart's grandmother, then a child, whispered into her mother, "The beard is wagging," which made the company retire.
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