Lily Elsie, c. 1904.
“She laughed. Or rather she started to laugh, and she stopped as if she
weren’t allowed to laugh. What a gay and interesting little get-together
this was going to be!…
The dark-eyed female
was enthralled. I winked at her. She would have been gorgeous if
someone had thrown her into a waterfall and held her there for half an
hour and I told her so silently.” – Lestat re: Eleni, The Vampire Lestat