It was a notable sign of her strong nature that she was not even impatient, but waited with calm fixity the hour at which she had asked Leonard Everard to meet her.

It is true that as the time grew closer her nerve was less marked.

And just before it she was a girl--and nothing more; with all girl's diffidence, a girl's self-distrust, a girl's abnegation, a girl's plasticity.
In the more purely personal aspect of her enterprise Stephen's effort was more conscious.

It is hardly possible for a pretty woman to seek in her study of perfection the aid of her mirror and to be unconscious of her aims.

There must certainly be at least one dominant purpose: the achievement of success.