"Why, for the figure that, by candle-light and in cloth-of-silver and
diamonds, she is still able to make."
"Oh dear, yes!" He showed as relieved to be able to see what I meant.
"She has grown so very much less plain."
But that wasn't at all what I meant. "Ah," I said, "you put it the
other way at Paddington--which was much more the right one."