Penelope and Lady Grace were certainly admirable foils.

The latter was fair, with beautiful complexion--a trifle sunburnt, blue eyes, good-humored mouth, and features excellent in their way, but a little lacking in expression.

Her figure was good; her movements slow but not ungraceful; her dress of white ivory satin a little extravagant for the occasion.

She looked exactly what she was,--a well-bred, well-disposed, healthy young Englishwoman, of aristocratic parentage.

Penelope, on the other hand, more simply dressed, save for the string of pearls which hung from her neck, had the look of a creature from another world.