"It's a face that should have the long side-ringlets of 1830.

It should have the rest of the personal arrangement, the pelisse, the shape of bonnet, the sprigged muslin dress and the cross-laced sandals.

It should have arrived in a pea-green 'tilbury' and be a reader of Mrs.Radcliffe.And all this to complete the Raphael!" Mr.Longdon, who, his discovery proclaimed, had begun, as might have been said, to live with it, looked hard a moment at his companion.

"How you've observed her!" Vanderbank met it without confusion.

"Whom haven't I observed?
Do you like her ?" he then rather oddly and abruptly asked.
The old man broke away again.