Yes, certainly she improved the picture.

Her profile, delicate and thin, defined itself against the sky, in the clear shadow of a coquettish hat; her figure was light; she bent and leaned easily; she wore a gray dress, fastened up as was then the fashion, and displaying the broad edge of a crimson petticoat.

She kept her position; she seemed absorbed in the view.

"Is she posing--is she attitudinizing for my benefit ?" Longueville asked of himself.

And then it seemed to him that this was a needless assumption, for the prospect was quite beautiful enough to be looked at for itself, and there was nothing impossible in a pretty girl having a love of fine landscape.