Mr Cradell admired Mrs Lupex as a connoisseur, not simply as a man.

"By heavens! Johnny, what a figure that woman has!" he said, one morning, as they were walking to their office.
"Yes; she stands well on her pins." "I should think she did.

If I understand anything of form," said Cradell, "that woman is nearly perfect.

What a torso she has!" From which expression, and from the fact that Mrs Lupex depended greatly upon her stays and crinoline for such figure as she succeeded in displaying, it may, perhaps, be understood that Mr Cradell did not understand much about form.
"It seems to me that her nose isn't quite straight," said Johnny Eames.

Now, it undoubtedly was the fact that the nose on Mrs Lupex's face was a little awry.