Description: Mary is a British governess. She's a "young English lady . . . tall, slim and dark — perhaps twenty-eight years of age. There was a kind of cool efficiency in the way she was eating her breakfast and in the way she called the attendant to bring her more coffee, which bespoke a knowledge of the world and of traveling. . . . She had poise and efficiency. He rather liked the severe regularity of her features and the delicate pallor of her skin. He liked the burnished black head with its neat waves of hair, and her eyes, cool, impersonal and grey."