She wore a black tailor-made suit, perhaps a little shorter than is usual for travelling in England, patent shoes,--long and narrow,--and black silk stockings.

Her hat was a small toque, and her veil one of those for which Frenchwomen are famous,--very large, but not in the least disfiguring.

This, however, she had raised for the present, and I was able to study the firm but fine profile of her features, to notice the delicacy of her chin, her small, well-shaped ears, her eyebrows--black and silky.

Her eyes themselves were hidden from me, but their color had been the first thing which had attracted me.

They were of a blue so deep that sometimes they seemed as black as her eyebrows themselves.