Her brown hair had been piled up in an enormous mass on her head, eked out by false tresses and puffings, and the whole plentifully powdered with gold dust.

She wore a prodigious number of gaudily set rings; her neck and ears and girdle were ablaze with gold and jewels.

So far from aiming, as do modern ladies, to reduce the waist to the slenderest possible proportions, Herennia, who was actually quite thin, had carefully padded out her form to proper dimensions, and showed this fact by her constrained motions.

She was rouged and painted, and around her floated an incense of a thousand and one rare perfumes.

Her amethystine tunic and palla were of pure silk--then literally worth its weight in gold--and embroidered with an elaborate pattern in which pearls and other gems played a conspicuous part.