The Hindered Hand

"[...]a very thick veil. The perfect mould of her shoulders, the attractiveness of her wealth of black hair massed at the back of her head-these things were demanding, the porter noticed, many an admiring glance from the darker of the two young men. The porter seemed about to forget his note in observing with what regularity the young man's eyes would wander off and straightway return to rest upon the beautiful form of the young woman, but an incident occurred that brought his mind back very forcibly to the note. The [...]".