He saw a round little face with broad cheekbones, flower-blue eyes, short lamp-black lashes, and slightly parted lips.

It was difficult to judge of her figure in those old clothes, but she was neither short nor tall; her neck was white and well set on, her hair pale brown and abundant.

Hilary noted that her chin, though not receding, was too soft and small; but what he noted chiefly was her look of patient expectancy, as though beyond the present she were seeing something, not necessarily pleasant, which had to come.

If he had not known from the painter of still life that she was from the country, he would have thought her a town-bred girl, she looked so pale.

Her appearance, at all events, was not "too matter-of-fact." Her speech, however, with its slight West-Country burr, was matter-of-fact enough, concerned entirely with how long she would have to sit, and the pay she was to get for it.