She had sent a servant beforehand to learn whether it was a right- or a left-hand sofa, for it required that she should dress accordingly, particularly as regarded her bracelets.
And very becoming her dress was.

It was white velvet, without any other garniture than rich white lace worked with pearls across her bosom, and the same round the armlets of her dress.

Across her brow she wore a band of red velvet, on the centre of which shone a magnificent Cupid in mosaic, the tints of whose wings were of the most lovely azure, and the colour of his chubby cheeks the clearest pink.

On the one arm which her position required her to expose she wore three magnificent bracelets, each of different stones.

Beneath her on the sofa, and over the cushion and head of it, was spread a crimson silk mantle or shawl, which went under her whole body and concealed her feet.