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But to Anna's taste Liza was far more attractive. Betsy had said

to Anna that she had adopted the pose of an innocent child, but

when Anna saw her, she felt that this was not the truth. She

really was both innocent and corrupt, but a sweet and passive

woman. It is true that her tone was the same as Sappho's; that

like Sappho, she had two men, one young and one old, tacked onto

her, and devouring her with their eyes. But there was something

in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow

of the real diamond among glass imitations. This glow shone out

in her exquisite, truly enigmatic eyes. The weary, and at the

same time passionate, glance of those eyes, encircled by dark

rings, impressed one by its perfect sincerity. Everyone looking

into those eyes fancied he knew her wholly, and knowing her,

could not but love her. At the sight of Anna, her whole face

lighted up at once with a smile of delight.