There were four other men, two of them mild, spectacled people, who had the air of students and a precise affected mode of talk, and one a boy cousin of whom no one took the slightest notice.

The fourth was a striking figure, a man of about forty in appearance, tall and a little stout, with a rugged face which in some way suggested a picture of a prehistoric animal in an old natural history she had owned.

The high cheek-bones, large nose, and slightly protruding eyes had an unfinished air about them, as if their owner had escaped prematurely from a mould.

A quantity of bushy black hair--which he wore longer than most men-enhanced the dramatic air of his appearance.

It was a face full of vigour and a kind of strength, shrewd, a little coarse, and solemn almost to the farcical.