Why, when she fled, she chose to burden herself with such toys, or whether she gave a thought to the suspicions that might be raised in Virginia if one of Sir Edwyn's maids bedecked herself in silk and lace and jewels, I do not know, but she had brought to the forest and the tobacco fields the gauds of a maid of honor.

The Puritan dress in which I first saw her was a thing of the past; she clothed herself now like the parrakeets in the forest,--or liker the lilies of the field, for verily she toiled not, neither did she spin.
Rolfe and I rose from our seats.

"Mistress Percy," I said, "let me present to you a right worthy gentleman and my very good friend, Master John Rolfe." She curtsied, and he bowed low.

He was a man of quick wit and had been at court, but for a time he could find no words.

Then: "Mistress Percy's face is not one to be forgotten.