Every eye was turned towards her.
Tom Jim Jack was in the crowd.
He was lost like the rest in the nimbus of this dazzling creature.
The lady at first absorbed the whole attention of the public,
who had crowded to the performance,
thus somewhat diminishing the opening effects of Chaos Vanquished.
Whatever might be the air of dreamland about her,
for those who were near she was a woman,
perchance too much a woman.
© transcript Emily Beynon
