The art which succeeded by gas-light failed by day: the difficulty of hiding the plainly artificial nature of the marks was almost insuperable.

She turned to her trunk; took from it two veils; and putting on her old-fashioned bonnet, tried the effect of them in succession.

One of the veils (of black lace) was too thick to be worn over the face at that summer season without exciting remark.

The other, of plain net, allowed her features to be seen through it, just indistinctly enough to permit the safe introduction of certain lines (many fewer than she was accustomed to use in performing the character) on the forehead and at the sides of the mouth.

But the obstacle thus set aside only opened the way to a new difficulty--the difficulty of keeping her veil down while she was speaking to other persons, without any obvious reason for doing so.