Presently the aching of the heart seized her simultaneously with a wild desire to glide airily in the mazes of an infinite dance.

To shake off the fascination she resolved to go on, although it would be necessary to pass him as he played.

On stealthily glancing ahead at the performer, she found to her relief that his eyes were closed in abandonment to instrumentation, and she strode on boldly.
But when closer her step grew timid, her tread convulsed itself more and more accordantly with the time of the melody, till she very nearly danced along.

Gaining another glance at him when immediately opposite, she saw that _one_ of his eyes was open, quizzing her as he smiled at her emotional state.

Her gait could not divest itself of its compelled capers till she had gone a long way past the house; and Car'line was unable to shake off the strange infatuation for hours.
After that day, whenever there was to be in the neighbourhood a dance to which she could get an invitation, and where Mop Ollamoor was to be the musician, Car'line contrived to be present, though it sometimes involved a walk of several miles; for he did not play so often in Stickleford as elsewhere.
The next evidences of his influence over her were singular enough, and it would require a neurologist to fully explain them.