I heard the story from someone who got it from the horse's mouth. You're getting it at third hand.

Coordinate term: brake pad

The three were now assembled in the old banqueting-hall, which, from its state of better preservation, had become their ordinary chamber.

It has been suggested by an acute student of cerebrophysiology that the white matter of the brain deals wholly with inhibiting the lower centres; and if inhibiting means the shaping of the action of the lower centres, this view seems very plausible.