In an ordinary case she would have said no, for Nevil enjoyed a range of society where faces charming as Miss Denham's were plentiful as roses in the rose-garden.
But, supposing him free of his bondage to the foreign woman, there was, she thought and feared, a possibility that a girl of this description might capture a young man's vacant heart sighing for a new mistress.
And if so, further observation assured her Miss Denham was likely to be dangerous far more than professedly attractive persons, enchantresses and the rest.

Rosamund watchfully gathered all the superficial indications which incite women to judge of character profoundly.

This new object of alarm was, as the General had said of her, tall and slim, a friend of neatness, plainly dressed, but exquisitely fitted, in the manner of Frenchwomen.

She spoke very readily, not too much, and had the rare gift of being able to speak fluently with a smile on the mouth.
Vulgar archness imitates it.

She won and retained the eyes of her hearer sympathetically, it seemed.