Then there were men who frankly admitted to themselves that they admired her in a rather nebulous way; and men, on the other hand, who realised quite clearly that there was something definitely attractive, even magnetic about this young woman. Frewin himself, in spite of the lazy and indolent air he affected, knew perfectly well that he had a distinct yen for Antoinette.
During the day, plainly-dressed, with a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles on a well-shaped nose, the Practical Virgin exuded sweet nothing. She was interested in what she was doing to the exclusion of all else.
But in the evening, if and when she went out, she looked definitely very attractive. She had a good sense of clothes, a slender but rounded and beautiful figure. And she never wore her glasses in the evening. She was
