She was, indeed, a little dazzled by her new companion, now that she began to realize him.

As compared with the average man in Washington or New York, here was an exception--an Apollo!--for she too thought of the Sun-god.

Miss Floyd could not remember that she had ever had to do with an Apollo before; young Barnes, therefore, was so far an event, a sensation.

In the opera-house she had been vaguely struck by a handsome face.

But here, in the freedom of outdoor dress and movement, he seemed to her a physical king of men; and, at the same time, his easy manner--which, however, was neither conceited nor ill-bred--showed him conscious of his advantages.
As they chatted on the balcony she put him through his paces a little.
He had been, it seemed, at Eton and Oxford; and she supposed that he belonged to the rich English world.