Every muscle and nerve tense as the strings from which she struck music, she presently swayed forward on the points of her feet, and seemed to gain in stature, to become a more commanding type.

Her features suggested neither force of intellect or originality of character: but they had beauty, and something more.

She stood a fascination, an allurement, to the masculine sense.

Harvey Rolfe had never so responded to this quality in the girl; the smile died from his face as he regarded her.

Of her skill as a musician, he could form no judgment; but it seemed to him that she played very well, and he had heard her praised by people who understood the matter; for instance, Herr Wilenski, the virtuoso, from whom--in itself a great compliment--Alma was having lessons.
He averted his eyes, and began to seek for known faces among the audience.