With whatever means she possessed in the way of adornment she enhanced her beauty.

And she stooped to artifices that she knew were unworthy of her, but which she deliberately chose to employ.

She made of herself a girl in every variable mood wherein a girl might be desirable.

In those moods she was not above the methods of an inexperienced though natural flirt.

She kept close to him whenever opportunity afforded; and she was forever playfully, yet passionately underneath the surface, fighting him for possession of the great black guns.