Lady Selina glanced at him sharply.

She herself was by no means a beauty.

But neither was she plain.

She had a long, rather distinguished face, with a marked nose and a wide thin-lipped mouth.

Her plentiful fair hair, a little dull and ashy in colour, was heaped up above her forehead in infinitesimal curls and rolls which did great credit to her maid, and gave additional height to the head and length to a thin white neck.