The Golden Quoribus Edith had been very pretty at twenty, but at twenty-eight her prettiness had immensely increased; she had really become a beauty of a particularly troubling type.

She had long, deep blue eyes, clearly-cut features, hair of that soft, fine light brown just tinged with red called by the French chatain clair; and a flower-like complexion.

She was slim, but not angular, and had a reposeful grace and a decided attraction for both men and women.

They generally tried to express this fascination by discovering resemblances in her to various well-known pictures of celebrated artists.

She had been compared to almost every type of all the great painters: Botticelli, Sir Peter Lely, Gainsborough, Burne-Jones.