But her eyes were more than ordinarily bright, and when she laughed there seemed to stream from them some heavenly delight.
When she did laugh it was as though some spring had been opened from which ran for the time a stream of sweetest intimacy.

For the time you would then fancy that you had been let into the inner life of this girl, and would be proud of yourself that so much should have been granted you.

You would feel that there was something also in yourself in that this should have been permitted.

Her hair and eyebrows were dark brown, of the hue most common to men and women, and had in them nothing that was peculiar; but her hair was soft and smooth and ever well dressed, and never redolent of peculiar odors.

It was simply Florence Mountjoy's hair, and that made it perfect in the eyes of her male friends generally.
"She's not such a wonderful beauty, after all," once said of her a gentleman to whom it may be presumed that she had not taken the trouble to be peculiarly attractive.