The financier paused in his restless pacing as he heard the door open and stood perfectly still, with his back to the light.

The woman advanced and also stood still, and they looked at one another with no great love in their eyes, though she who had entered was well worth looking at, from a number of points of view.

Firstly, she had that arresting, compelling personality which does not depend upon features, or coloring, or form, or beauty.

A subtle force of character--a radiating magnetism--breathed from her whole being.

When Zara Shulski came into any assemblage of people conversation stopped and speculation began.
She was rather tall and very slender; and yet every voluptuous curve of her lithe body refuted the idea of thinness.