She looked at him, and he saw that her face was of a lengthened oval, with a luminous rose-tinted skin, full red lips, and big brown, frank eyes with heavy auburn lashes.

She made a grave little inclination of her head toward him, and he bowed in response.

Since her arrival, he noted, the chattering of the others had entirely ceased.
"I followed the others in, in the hope that I might be of some assistance," he ventured to explain to her in a low murmur, feeling that at last here was some one to whom an explanation of his presence in this Romish house was due.

"I hope they won't feel that I have intruded." She nodded her head as if she quite understood.

"They'll take the will for the deed," she whispered back.