Her appearance bore out the legend of her headache: she looked like a garden after an early frost.

But perhaps the most terrifying thing about her aspect was her complete indifference to it.

A recollection suddenly came to Mr.Lanley of a railway accident that he and Adelaide had been in.

He had seen her stepping toward him through the debris, buttoning her gloves.

She was far beyond such considerations now.
She had come to put her very life to the test.