She was positively radiant.

McKibben, almost smitten, was most attentive.
"This is such a pleasure," he whispered, intimately.

"You are very beautiful--a dream!" "You would find me a very substantial one," returned Aileen.

"Would that I might find," he laughed, gaily; and Aileen, gathering the hidden significance, showed her teeth teasingly.

Mrs.Simms, engrossed by Cowperwood, could not hear as she would have liked.
After the march Aileen, surrounded by a half-dozen of gay, rudely thoughtless young bloods, escorted them all to see her portrait.