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Depend upon it , no young girl could go over there and do the things she did and not feel the effects of it : for life , absolutely for life . You yourself feel the effects in one way , the young ones in another . '' Raven was very considerate of her , left stranded there with him . But after the noon dinner , when they settled again by the fire , he began to realize the magnitude of his task . He was simply saddled with Amelia . She had n't been able to get her alienist up here , but she had constituted herself a psychic detective on her own account . At first he did n't mind , she was so `` simple honest '' in her expedients .