When we meet the next young woman, who is being held in a straitjacket in an asylum as she has recently attempted suicide, something about her story sounds familiar. It's one of the dreams that the young woman in the first story claimed to have dreamt with one of her fellow students. This dream had been about a young woman in an asylum who after suffering a head injury discovered she could not only predict the future, but was actually responsible for selecting which of the many possible futures would occur. She doesn't believe that any human should have that power, and wants to commit suicide in the hopes that with her out of the way, chance will again rule everybody's life.

Subsequently we meet each of the remaining dreams that the girl claimed to have been in. A woman on a skiing holiday meets a mysterious man on the ski lift when it breaks down, who tells her he has been sent to observe which run she selects to take back down the mountain. It's of vital importance she select the right one or calamity could occur. Yet he also says that she's not to think about it, because if she does, that will interfere in what's supposed to happen.

The third dream was of a fortune teller, who is confronted by somebody who knows his own future and has merely come to her for confirmation. She of course knows that everything about her art is a fraud, and gently tells him that the short life line on the palm of his hand means absolutely nothing. Needless to say, when he's struck by a car outside and killed after leaving her parlour, she is taken by complete surprise.

Miss Emily's dream had been of an old woman who takes her broken clock into the watchmakers to be repaired. She needs the comfort of the sound of its ticking in order to sleep at night. The watchmaker is able to repair the ticking mechanism, but the clock will no longer keep time. On her way home she finds herself enclosed by a heavy mist that prevents her from seeing barely a yard in front of her. While she can't see, she can hear, and all around her she hears the sounds of people she has known throughout her life. She eventually hears the sounds of the incident that she now realizes shaped her whole life.