So often had I been disappointed in ladies when they showed their faces, that I muttered Jimmy's aphorism to myself: 'The saddest thing in life is that most women look best from the back.' But when she looked round all anxiety was dispelled.

So far as your advice is concerned, it cannot matter to you what she was like.

Briefly, she was charming.
"I am naturally shy, and so had more difficulty in making her acquaintance than many travellers would have had.

It was at the baths of Bormio that we came together.

I had bribed a waiter to seat me next her father at dinner; but, when the time came, I could say nothing to him, so anxious was I to create a favorable impression.