As he himself had seen the too slender prostrate figure and the bloodless small face with its curtain of lashes lying too heavily close to the cold cheek, he had realised that their helpless beauty alone was enough to arrest more than ordinary attention.

She had, as the woman had cried out, looked as if she were dead, and dead loveliness is a reaching power.
Dr.Redcliff spoke of her thoughtfully and with a certain gentleness.

He at first included her with many other girls, the changes in whose methods of life he had been observing.
"The closed gates in their paths are suddenly thrown open for them because no one has to lock and unlock them," he said.

"It produces curious effects.

The light-minded ones take advantage of the fact and find dangerous amusement in it sometimes.