Good-bye!" He straightened himself, stood a moment looking down at her, then turned finally and left her.
There was something in the manner of his going that made her wonder.
The entrance of the old Kaffir woman a few minutes later diverted her thoughts.

She found Mary Ann an interesting study, being the first of her kind that she had viewed at close quarters.

She was very stout and ungainly.

She moved with elephantine clumsiness, but her desire to please was so evident that Sylvia could not regard her as wholly without charm.

Her dog-like amiability outweighed her hideousness.