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Conscious that she was showing her beauty to the greatest advantage in
the eyes of a man of taste, she betrayed a little of the embarrassment
which Romayne had already noticed at the moment when she gave him her
hand. They were alone, and it was the first time she had seen him in
evening dress.
It may be that women have no positive appreciation of what is beautiful
in form and color--or it may be that they have no opinions of their own
when the laws of fashion have spoken. This at least is certain, that not
one of them in a thousand sees anything objectionable in the gloomy
and hideous evening costume of a gentleman in the nineteenth century.
A handsome man is, to their eyes, more seductive than ever in the
contemptible black coat and the stiff white cravat which he wears in
common with the servant who waits on him at table. After a stolen glance
at Romayne, Stella lost all confidence in herself--she began turning
over the photographs on the table.
The momentary silence which followed their first greeting became
intolerable to her.


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