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‘This is Norah’s uncle,’ she said presenting him, and Monica found Captain Ingpen’s eyes on her; light yet hot blue eyes—burned looking, with a straight line of upper lid—that showed oddly in his dark face. His stare might express surprise, discomposure, or admiration, and since so many things to-day reminded her of the past, she now found Captain Ingpen’s eyes reminding her of pursuing suitors. Yes, it was unmistakable, though it had been so long since she had seen it, that arrested, appraising look in a man’s eye; a tribute to her sex that, she reflected ironically as she walked away, would never have been elicited had not her close little hat, her upturned collar, so framed her countenance as to lend it a misleadingly youthful aspect.