If the defense expected to utilize the plea of insanity it would have
had some difficulty in inducing a jury to believe that Mrs. McDonald
was greatly deranged. There was no gleam of madness in her eyes. They
were dark-circled and languid, but not at all staring or strange. She
seemed unusually self-poised and collected.
Without any artifices of dress or cosmetics, without any gleam of
gaiety or vivacity, it was not impossible to understand why this woman
wielded the great influence in the lives of three men that she did. In
the first place, her features were regular and fine. Her eyebrows were
delicately penciled and her eyes large and dark.