All the while she was watching and weighing Mr.Flexen.He never once perceived it.

Plainly enough, the talk did her good.

She had come to dinner looking, Mr.Flexen thought, rather under the water.

Before long she was looking, as she had resolved to look, her usual self.

When, at a few minutes to nine, she left them, she was looking the most charming and sympathetic creature in the world, and, what was more, a creature without a care.
When the door closed behind her, she seemed to have taken with her a good deal of the brightness of the room.