Even at his best, however, Jean Jacques could not reach within three inches of her height.
Yet he did not regard her as at all overdone because of that.

He thought her hair very fine, as it waved away from her low forehead in a grace which reminded him of the pictures of the Empress Eugenie, and of the sister of that monsieur le duc who had come fishing to St.Saviour's a few years before.

He thought that if her hair was let down it would probably reach to her waist, and maybe to her ankles.

She had none of the plump, mellow softness of the beauties he had seen in the Basque country.

She was a slim and long limbed Diana, with fine lines and a bosom of extreme youth, though she must have been twenty-one her last birthday.