Ease, confidence, carelessness seemed spoken alike by the young woman's half haughty carriage and her rich costuming.

Midway in the twenties of her years, she was just above slightness, just above medium height.

The roundness of shoulder and arm, thus revealed, bespoke soundness and wholesomeness beyond callowness, yet with no hint of years or bulk.

Her hair certainly was dark and luxuriant, her eyes surely were large and dark, without doubt shaded by long and level brows.

The nose was not too highly arched any more than it was pinched and meager--indeed, a triumph in noses, since not too strong, nor yet indicating a physique weak and ill nourished.
Vital, self-confident, a trifle foreign, certainly distinguished, at first there might have seemed a trace of defiance in the carriage, even in the glance of Josephine St.Auban.