the exotic gaiety of her clothes , a black and white striped cotton shirt tucked into a wide hand-stitched black leather belt above a medium length skirt in shocking pink , seemed to have infected her , and it was impossible for bond to recognize the chill woman of the night before in the girl who now walked beside him and laughed happily at his ignorance of the names of the wildflowers , the samphire , viper 's bug-loss , and fumitory round their feet .