It could not be the practice of European women to bare themselves so immodestly before men.

It was only the evidence of her visitor's own plump neck and shoulders that convinced her, and she suffered herself to be led downstairs in an agony of self-consciousness.
When we entered the box at the Empire, a troupe of female acrobats were doing their turn.

Carlotta uttered a gasp of dismay, blushed burning red, and shrank back to the door.

There is no pretence about Carlotta.
She was shocked to the roots of her being.
"They are naked!" she said, quiveringly.
"For heaven's sake, explain," said I to Mrs.McMurray, and I beat a hasty retreat to the promenade.
When I returned, Carlotta had been soothed down.

She was watching some performing dogs with intense wonderment and delight.