No doubt Donna Inez was making an examination on her own account, and with the cleverness of the sex the three women, while chatting affably, learned all that there was to be learned from the outward appearance of each other in three minutes.

Miss Kendal could not deny but what Donna Inez was very beautiful, and frankly admitted--inwardly, of course--her own inferiority.

She was merely pretty, whereas the Peruvian lady was truly handsome and quite majestic in appearance.
Yet about Donna Inez there was the same indefinite barbaric look as characterized her father.

Her face was lovely, dark and proud in expression, but there was an aloofness about it which puzzled the English girl.

Donna Inez might have belonged to a race populating another planet of the solar system.