She therefore put on a plain muslin blouse, covered it with the Eton jacket and pinned it across her chest with three safety pins.
First she pinned her hair very close to her head and then she put on the black chiffon scarf that had belonged to her mother.
She wound it round her neck, pinning it so that it would cover her chin.
This meant, when she had added the mask which was made of thick paper, that nothing showed except the tip of her nose.
She knew in the darkness that it would make her look as if she was the young man she pretended to be.
She took a last look at herself in the mirror and then went down the stairs to where her father kept his sporting guns.
There were, amongst them, she knew, some duelling pistols that had belonged to her grandfather.
He was reputed to have fou
