Freda bent more closely over her sketch, but coloured perceptibly.

Miss Nugent simpered and looked very handsome withal.
Miss Hall was struck with her beauty as she then appeared; a perfect profile, perfect complexion, perfect features, beneath a most becoming straw hat and feathers.

Such a colour and complexion, but no expression, not even the sarcastic turn of the lip of the mother.
'Perfectly child-like, amiable, and silly,' thought Miss Hall, 'and yet Colonel Vaughan admires that statue more than the noble face and grand expression of my Freda.'.