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Her foulard gown was as simple as genius could make it, and she wore no ornaments, save a fine clasp to her waistband of dull gold, quaintly fashioned, and the fine gold chain around her neck, from which hung her racing-glasses. She was to him the very type of everything aristocratic.
In this uncontaminated air Mr. and Mrs. Boykin had preserved the purity of simpler conditions, and Elmer Boykin, returning rakishly from a Sunday's racing at Chantilly, betrayed, under his "knowing" coat and the racing-glasses slung ostentatiously across his shoulder, the unmistakeable cut of the American business man coming "up town" after a long day in the office.
Trent had come straight from Ascot, straight indeed from his interview with Francis, and was still wearing his racing-glasses. "I wish to see Mr. Da Souza," Trent said. "Is he in?" "I believe so, sir," the boy answered. "What name?" "Trent! Mr. Scarlett Trent!" The door of an inner office opened, and Da Souza, sleek and curled, presented himself.
Bakkus wore a sun-stained brown and white check suit and an old grey bowler hat and carried a pair of racing-glasses slung across his shoulders, all of which transformed his aspect from that, in evening dress, of the broken old tragedian to that of the bookmaker's tout rejected of honest bookmaking men.
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