She had thin blonde hair and her face was pretty and petite in Regency way oval like a miniature,though she had a harsh way of speaking perhaps the accent of the school,Roedeam or Cheltenham Ladies'College,which she had not long ago left.She wore a man's signet ring on her engagement finger, and as I sat down at my table,with the Japanese gentlemen between us,she said, 'So you see we could marry next week.' 'Yes'