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watcher’s eye, the arms were of a greyish pink.
    The face of the woman could not be examined very satisfactorily through the telescope because she stood with her gaze bent downwards, directed at the objects with which she dealt in the sink. But since she occasionally glanced upwards, quizzing to her left and right, and on three occasions looked behind her to ascertain if anyone was standing there, and once stared vacantly into the garden, allowing her hands to be idle at the same time, it was possible to obtain a sort of symposium view of her whole head and all the features on it. Although her hair was not tidily arranged, it had a parting in the centre of the skull; how far back this parting went could not be distinguished, since the hair that grew at the back of the skull had been brushed upwards and secured by small metal clips to the hair on the crown of the skull. Some locks of hair had escaped this confinement; over the right shoulder hung a strand that trailed down until it touched the string of the apron, while on the left side of the woman’s face, several wisps of hair bobbed over the temple or, curling behind the ear, rose up from underneath the lobe and touched the left cheek. On the crown of the skull, the hair seemed a middle brown in tone, but the ends of it, and in particular the lock that trailed on the right shoulder, were more golden, so that the whole effect was of a tawniness. The eyebrows were darker, and straight rather than curved. They were long and ample. Below the eyebrows were set two eyes with heavy lids. Viewed from a distance, even under twenty-two orders of magnification, the colour of the iris was difficult to distinguish; they appeared sometimes to have the same shade of tawniness as the hair; at other moments they seemed more hazel. These pupils were slow in movement, and often seemed scarcely visible under the eyelids. Between the eyes, the bridge of the nose was hardly distinguishable at this distance, because it was not high; the nose only rose to any prominence at its lower extremity, where it swelled out into a small bulb set with wide nostril flanges on either side, giving a total effect of a nose of some degree of good nature, weakness, and impertinence. Below this again was the upper lip and then the mouth, pale and unpainted, with an ample lower lip that protruded slightly; the corners of the mouth were tucked firmly into the cheeks. The chin was rounded and firm, youthful, and with resolution in its lines when it was tucked into the neck, as it was when the face was directed downwards. The cheekbones were fairly high and set wide apart. The skin covering them was fresh and a more delicate shade of pink than the arms, as far as could be determined through the telescope.
    Although the effect of this face might have been interpreted by an onlooker as generally indolent, it was continually in movement, so much so as sometimes to elude the small circle of telescopic vision which sought to keep it always in the centre of its focus. The eyes under their heavy lids sometimes looked this way and sometimes that at the objects being given attention in the sink or being brought out of the sink and placed on a shelf or ledge next to it; also the head moved, not only from one side to the other, but—on one occasion—tilted upwards as the woman gazed vaguely into the garden beyond the window, her attention possibly being distracted (without being definitely attracted) by a brief flight made by a pigeon from the peak of the roof of the old brick building into an apple tree; and on three occasions the woman turned her body slightly and head entirely to see if someone was behind her in the kitchen. The woman’s hands were more continuously in motion, being involved with the objects in the sink, which they repetitively brought out of the sink, placing them on a shelf or ledge next to it. On one occasion, one of the hands, the left one, rose up to the left cheek, which lowered