“She is then a little too old for you?”
“No, monsieur, not a day too old if she suited me in other things.”
“In what does she not suit you, William? She is personally agreeable, is she not?”
“Very; her hair and complexion are just what I admire; and her turn of form, though quite Belgian, is full of grace.”
“Bravo! and her face? her features? How do you like them?”
“A little harsh, especially her mouth.”
“Ah, yes! her mouth,” said M. Pelet, and he chuckled inwardly. “There is character about her mouth—firmness—but she has a very pleasant smile; don’t you think so?”
“Rather crafty.”
“True, but that expression of craft is owing to her eyebrows; have you remarked her eyebrows?”
I answered that I had not.