"The most beautiful neck and throat, sir, in all Washington in her day," old General Waterbury once told me, and the General was an authority.

"You should have seen her in her prime, sir.

What the devil the men were thinking of I don't know, but they let her go back to Geneseo, and there she has lived ever since.

Why, sir, at a ball at the German Embassy she made such a sensation that--" but then the General always tells such stories of most of the women he knows.
There was but little left of that kind of beauty.

She had kept her figure, it is true--a graceful, easy moving figure, with the waist of a girl; well-proportioned arms and small, dainty hands.