Coming from the curtains was a creature more monstrous than anything she had ever beheld. It was the height of a child, being only a few feet tall, but its head was huge and distorted, with a great bulging forehead from which the hair hung lankly over flattened and deformed ears. Its body reached almost to the ground, its legs were, like two sticks, and its arms, although also thin and spidery, ended in large white hands with fat and stumpy fingers. It had thick lips to its big mouth, and its eyes were small and unexpectedly bright.
It was all the more frightening, because the creature was dressed neatly and even prettily in girl’s clothes. Its dress of white muslin trimmed with pink ribbons, seemed somehow to make a travesty of the fantastic body, and the pink bow tidying the coarse hair
