Perhaps--' Having made the bed she sat down to rest for a moment.

After all, the headache was certainly not gone, though it had been disguising itself.
The moment grew to a quarter of an hour.

Her eyes seemed to behold something very clearly, just in front, down there on the floor.

But the floor itself had made way for a large hall; among rows of people she saw a tall lady in a red cloak, and a bald-headed gentleman, and between them someone whose face was at an angle which allowed her to see it very well, to note even the look, not quite a smile, of pleasure which made it so interesting.

She knew no other face which affected her as that did.