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It was nothing to her that Mr. Carville had poured diluted vitriol upon some women who clamoured for the vote , nothing that he had barely deigned to notice her existence . Once aware that he essayed to be a spell-binder , she accepted him with utter _ abandon _ in that rôle . She permitted him to bind the spell ; and as she walked with short quick steps along Van Diemen 's Avenue , her brown head held high and unswerving , I could not refrain from the fancy that she moved as one in a trance . It was a disappointment to us that we heard the whistle of the five o'clock train before we realized that Mr. Carville was on board . The sound was the one thing needful to set our mind and tongues free to talk of him . So potent had been his atmosphere that , to be honest , we had been unable to apply judgment to his case . When we gathered at dinner the discussion was in full and amiable swing .