text:  Through the flowers also that partially obscured the long low window might be distinguished part of a sad-coloured gown the simplicity of which in its make could not conceal as perhaps it ought to have done the rounded outlines of a full but graceful form; while at the same time its dull hue was charmingly relieved--of course without any intention of coquetry--by a ruff and gorget of the most glittering purity and at the end of the long sleeves by two small delicate white cuffs which seemed to be playing a game of rivalry with the little hands for the palm of fairness