They must, of course, be got into the train, but the doors of their compartments are not locked.
It has been found by experience that English travellers object to being imprisoned without trial, and quote regulations of the Board of Trade forbidding the locking of both doors of a railway carriage.

There is nothing to be gained by a public wrangle with an angry Englishman.

He cannot be got to understand that laws, those of the Board of Trade or any other, are not binding on Irish officials.

There is only one way of treating him without loss of dignity, and that is to give in to him at once, with a shrug of the shoulders.
Thus, Miss King, entering upon the final stage of her journey to Ballymoy, reaped the benefit of belonging to a conquering and imperial race.

She was, indeed, put into her compartment, a first-class one, ten minutes before the train started; but her door, alone of all the doors, was left unlocked.