For this, properly speaking wonderful, reason I was the only one of the company who could listen without constraint to the unbidden guest with that fine head of white hair, so beautifully kept, so magnificently waved, so artistically arranged that respect could not be felt for it any more than for a very expensive wig in the window of a hair-dresser.

In fact, I had an inclination to smile at it.

This proves how unconstrained I felt.

My mind was perfectly at liberty; and so of all the eyes in that room mine was the only pair able to look about in easy freedom.

All the other listeners' eyes were cast down, including Mills' eyes, but that I am sure was only because of his perfect and delicate sympathy.