She had a pleasant face, but her clothes riveted Dickory's attention.

It would be impossible to describe them even if one were gazing upon them.

It will be enough to say that they covered her.

Her amazement more than equalled that of her husband; she stood and stared, but could not speak.
"From the spring at the end of the island," cried the man, "to this house since yesterday afternoon! I have always supposed that no one could get here from the spring by land.

I call that way impassable.