Nor did she, I am sure.' The new mother had been truthfully enough described by Mr.Swancourt.
She was not physically attractive.

She was dark--very dark--in complexion, portly in figure, and with a plentiful residuum of hair in the proportion of half a dozen white ones to half a dozen black ones, though the latter were black indeed.

No further observed, she was not a woman to like.

But there was more to see.

To the most superficial critic it was apparent that she made no attempt to disguise her age.