As they came nearer they saw that in place of fingernails it had long white feelers which it kept extended and constantly waving about as it groped its way towards the water.

As the intense light flashed full on it, it turned its head towards them.

It had a nose and a mouth--the nose, long and thick, with huge mobile nostrils; the mouth forming an angle something like a fish's lips.

Teeth there seemed none.

At either side of the upper part of the nose there were two little sunken holes--in which this thing's ancestors of countless thousands of years ago had once had eyes.
As she looked upon this awful parody of what had once perhaps been a human face, Zaidie covered hers with her hands and uttered a little moan of horror.
"Horrible, isn't it ?" said Redgrave.