"In her room she saw what she thought was the apparition of a knight dressed in silver, with a plumed helmet. The plume appeared black in the black and white of mid-night but could have been crimson or indigo. The figure did not vanish when she opened and shut her eyes and she reckoned - however much reckoning anyone can do in the dead of night, suddenly woken - he could not be inside her mind. He must be in her room. (beginning of "a public woman")"