Take her for all in all, she was a magnificent creature, this woman of thirty, overflowing with health and life, in all her triumphant display of full-blown womanly beauty.

Not a man in the hotel but had looked at her in undisguised admiration, and if they had not yet ventured to make advances to her, it was because she intimidated them by her cold hauteur, or by the mocking twinkle of her eye.
Only for Wilhelm, now that she had really taken notice of him, did those eyes begin to grow soft and gentle, and when they met his turned meek and harmless, and, in their apparent innocence, seemed to plead to him for notice, confidence, instruction.

He did not remain impervious to their influence.

It afforded him distinct pleasure to sit at table beside this beautiful woman and show her small attentions.

On his long walks he caught himself thinking deeply about her, while the blood coursed with unwonted heat through his veins.