The Chinaman's yellow face was impassive, his snuff-brown eyes quite blank.

Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.

And she had tied her hair with a snuff-brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her.

And there came a priest, who was a sub-lieutenant, out of a wood of snuff-brown shadows and half-veiled trunks.

She put them both away and instead brought out an ugly pattern of snuff-brown stuff, bought years before and never used.