In their hearts they were frightened.
There was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch.

The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun twenty-five.

But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.

Gudrun was very beautiful, passive, soft-skinned, soft-limbed.

She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings.