She was in a tempest of excitement.

And she advanced towards him with a threatening mien.

She would kill me if she could, thought the Colonel; but he thought at the same moment, how beautiful she is.

He had recovered his head now.

She was lovely when he knew her, then a simple country girl, Now she was dazzling, in the fullness of ripe womanhood, a superb creature, with all the fascination that a woman of the world has for such a man as Col.Selby.