![]() A tall girl, thin, with good bones the face narrow-well-bred but not beautiful. ![]() “This is what he will see across the table in a few minutes,” she thought anxiously. She looked neat but not striking, she decided both her training and her own preference made her conservative. ![]() In the scented warmth of the lounge Kathryn checked her general appearance and her make-up. She went directly to the Ladies’ Lounge, aware of the eyes of the cloakroom attendant and the maître d’ staring after her, assessing the value of her four-year-old tweed suit and the matching coat from which she had removed the matted fur collar. Donald had said “about twelve,” but she had a horror of being late for a treat which had been drilled into her during her lonely childhood at boarding school. Kathryn Hendrix entered the fashionable restaurant at exactly noon. The Elsingham Portrait - By Elizabeth Chater ![]()
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