It was a complete and picturesquely luxurious thing.

The change suggested magic.

The magic which had been used, Lord Dunholm reflected, was the simplest and most powerful on earth.

Given surroundings, combined with a gift for knowing values of form and colour, if you have the power to spend thousands of guineas on tiger skins, Oriental rugs, and other beauties, barrenness is easily transformed.
The drawing-room wore a changed aspect, and at a first glance it was to be seen that in poor little Lady Anstruthers, as she had generally been called, there was to be noted alteration also.

In her case the change, being in its first stages, could not perhaps be yet called transformation, but, aided by softly pretty arrangement of dress and hair, a light in her eyes, and a suggestion of pink under her skin, one recalled that she had once been a pretty little woman, and that after all she was only about thirty-two years old.
That her sister, Miss Vanderpoel, had beauty, it was not necessary to hesitate in deciding.