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being hypnotised. But if once she can be hypnotised--even by somebody
else--the thing is done."
"You can--?"
"
Oh, certainly! Once we get her amenable, then we can suggest that she
must marry Bindon--that that is her fate; or that the young man is
repulsive, and that when she sees him she will be giddy and faint, or
any little thing of that sort. Or if we can get her into a sufficiently
profound trance we can suggest that she should forget him altogether--"
"Precisely."
"But the problem is to get her hypnotised. Of course no sort of proposal
or suggestion must come from you--because no doubt she already distrusts
you in the matter."
The hypnotist leant his head upon his arm and thought.
"
It's hard a man cannot dispose of his own daughter," said Mwres
irrelevantly.
"
You must give me the name and address of the young lady," said the
hypnotist, "and any information bearing upon the matter. And, by the
bye, is there any money in the affair?"
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