A queenly figure! tall and slim, bending, swaying, undulating as the lily or the lotos.

Clad in a flowing gown of some filmy black material shot with gold.

For ornament in her hair she wore an old Egyptian jewel, a tiny crystal disk, set between rising plumes carved in lapis lazuli.

On her wrist was a broad bangle or bracelet of antique work, in the shape of a pair of spreading wings wrought in gold, with the feathers made of coloured gems.

For all her gracious bearing toward me, when our hostess introduced me, I was then afraid of her.