He could see her as she looked in this gown in her memorable passage through the hall the evening before, and, recalling her expression, wondered if they yet understood the nature of her purpose and the determination which gave it such extraordinary vigor.
Mr.Harper called his attention to two other articles of dress hanging in another part of the room.

These were her long gray rain-coat and the hat and veil she had worn on the train.
"She went out bare-headed and in the plain serge dress in which she arrived," remarked Mr.Harper with a side glance at Ransom.

"I wonder if the girl met on the highway was without hat and dressed in black serge." Ransom was silent.
"Anitra's hat is below and here is Mrs.Ransom's.

She who escaped from this house last night went out bare-headed," repeated the lawyer.
Mr.Ransom, moving aside to avoid the probing of the other's eye, merely remarked: "You noticed my wife's dress very particularly it seems.

It was of serge, you say." "Yes.