It was necessary, he said, that he should come to England for orders.

How otherwise was he to bring his profession to account?
In personal appearance Ethelbert Stanhope was the most singular of beings.

He was certainly very handsome.

He had his sister Madeline's eyes, without their stare and without their hard, cunning, cruel firmness.

They were also very much lighter, and of so light and clear a blue as to make his face remarkable, if nothing else did so.
On entering a room with him, Ethelbert's blue eyes would be the first thing you would see, and on leaving it almost the last you would forget.