Then he took a long look at her, and her dress alone was sufficient to attract attention.

She was clad in some kind of soft white stuff, which clung close to her form, showing to the full every movement of her sinuous figure.

She wore a close-fitting cap of some fine fur of dazzling white.

Coiled round her white throat was a large necklace of emeralds, whose profusion of colour dazzled when the sun shone on them.

Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation.