She wore a draggled dress of cream-coloured muslin, very transparent over the shoulders, somewhat scandalously wanting at the throat and breast, and very frayed and dirty round the skirt.

Her feet, which were large and plump, were cased in extremely pointed shoes with large paste buckles; and as she crossed them on the stool provided for them she showed a considerable amount of rather clumsy ankle.

The hands too were large, common, and ill-kept, and the wrists laden with bracelets.

She was adorned indeed with a great deal of jewellery, including some startling earrings of a bright green stone.

The hat, which she had carefully placed on a chair beside her, was truly a monstrosity!--but, as Doris guessed, an expensive monstrosity, such as the Rue de la Paix provides, at anything from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty francs, for those of its cosmopolitan customers whom it pillages and despises.