She was girlishly slim.

He had observed that her eyes were beautifully clear and gray in the sunlight, and her exquisitely smooth dark hair, neatly coiled and luxuriant crown of beauty, reminded him of puritanism in its simplicity.

At times he doubted that she was twenty-three.

If she had said nineteen or twenty he would have been better satisfied.

She puzzled him and roused speculation in him.