The rich red of her dress had apparently brought out an answering red in her cheeks.

Her eyes were very bright and her lips smiled; yet she seemed oddly nervous and restless.

She sewed a little, with a bit of yellow silk on white--but not for long.

She knitted with two long ivory needles flashing in and out of a silky mesh of blue--but this, too, she soon ceased doing.

On a low stand at David's side she had placed books and pictures, and for a time she talked of those.