Victoria Winters encounters Barnabas who is fretting about the delayed arrival the ship which carries his fiancé, Josette DuPres. He told her not to travel this time of year because of the bad storms, but she ignored him and now her ship is a week late. Victoria tells him Josette is all right with such conviction that Barnabas asks if she is psychic. Victoria tells him even if she were psychic she would never tell anyone's future, especially not his!