i looked to her face then to where she was looking and saw a dark-haired woman wearing a phenomenal blood red gown on her voluptuous , immaculately cared for body , her eyes a familiar brown-green and at her side was a tall , dark-haired man who once was probably very handsome but who now had a serious gut and the skin of his face showed he either drank too much , smoked too much , did n't eat the right foods or all three ... in abundance .