Murder gleamed from her eye, assassination lurked in every twitching muscle of her body.

As she crouched to spring, Fate, for once favouring the weak, directed her attention to myself, and she became, for the first time, aware of my presence.

It acted upon her as a heavenly vision upon a Biblical criminal.

In an instant she was a changed being.

The wicked beast, going about seeking whom it might devour, had vanished.