He wore a black mask, ugly but not grotesque; and his whole figure was more like the devil in the picture than Daisy had imagined it could be.

She did not like the whole business at all.

There was no getting out of it now; the picture must be given; so the performers were placed.
Hamilton and Preston sat on two sides of a chess-board, and behind them the little angel stood watching the game.

Mrs.Sandford was right.

By a skilful placing and shielding of the lamps, the lights were thrown broadly where they ought to be, on faces and draperies, leaving the gauze wings of the angel in such obscurity that they just shewed as it was desired they should.