No one is allowed to enter unless he has special permission." "There is some one entering now," Maggie pointed out, "for the first time.

Watch!" La Belle Nita stood for a moment in the front of the box.

She was dressed in the gala costume of a Chinese lady, in a cherry-coloured robe with wide sleeves, her hair, with its many jewelled ornaments, like a black pool of night, her face ghastly white with a superabundance of powder.

Prince Shan turned his head slightly towards her, and though no muscle of his face moved, it was obvious that her coming was unwelcome.
She began to talk.

He listened with the face of a sphinx.