There was a certain impressiveness about her mode of wearing the same gown which seemed to create an illusion.

To-day in her dark red gown embroidered with poppies of still another shade, she created a distinctly new impression, although she had worn the same costume often before at the club meetings.

She went downstairs in advance of the other women who had arrived before, and were yet anxiously peering at themselves in the cross-lighted mirror, and being adjusted as to refractory neckwear by one another.
When Alice entered Mrs.Slade's elegant little reception-room, which was done in a dull rose colour, its accessories very exactly matching, even to Mrs.Slade's own costume, which was rose silk under black lace, she was led at once to a lady richly attired in black, with gleams of jet, who was seated in a large chair in the place of honour, not quite in the bay window but exactly in the centre of the opening.

The lady quite filled the chair.

She was very stout.