The creature clinging to Percival Nowell's arm was a pretty woman enough, with rather red hair, and a common face.

She was about Marian's height; and that was the only likeness between them.
The spectators of this brief fracas crowded round the actors in it, seeing nothing but the insult offered to a lady, and highly indignant with John Saltram; and amidst their murmurs Percival Nowell pushed his way to the shore, with the woman still clinging to his arm..