floor. Otherwise, the room was much like any on the earth.

Mona's clothes interested Billie immensely. Without exception the
garments were skirtless, and a large proportion of the suits were in
one piece. Headgear was limited to caps, of which Mona owned an
immense variety; while she wore nothing but high lace-up boots or
pumps. Billie was sure that these were all of leather.

With the aid of no less than four maids, all of whom were very
pretty girls, Mona changed to a garment of some lustrous brown
material, like silk velvet but with a much longer nap, together with
stockings of the golf pattern, and black pumps. Next she proceeded
to inspect herself carefully in a mirror.

Billie saw that Smith's estimate of "not over thirty" was accurate
enough. The girl was still young as to face, although her body was
remarkably robust. And Billie found that her delicacy of feature did
not suffer from the close-up.

Instead, her refinement was made only the more striking. Probably it
was the high arching of her eyebrows that had made her face
patrician; that, together with the sensitiveness of her nostrils.
For there was nothing at all cold about her eyes; they were a very
dark brown, large and full. And her lips were anything but haughty;
they were a deep red and piquantly upturned at the corners. The
whole carriage of her head, however, marked her as an aristocrat,
but a lovable one.

As she turned from the glass the sound of a laugh came from the
front of the house. Billie instantly recognized Fort's voice. Mona