Almost feverishly she took off the clothes she wore and hastily threw them from her.

Then she put on the buckskin clothes in which she had journeyed to England, drew down her hair as she used to wear it, fastened round her waist a long red sash which had been given her by a governor of the Hudson's Bay Company when he had visited her father's country, threw her blanket round her shoulders, and then eyed herself in the great mirror in the room.

What she saw evidently did not please her perfectly, for she stretched out her hands and looked at them; she shook her head at herself and put her hand to her cheeks and pinched them, they were not so brown as they once were, then she thrust out her foot.

She drew it back quickly in disdain.
Immediately she caught the fashionable slippers from her feet and threw them among the discarded garments.

She looked at herself again.