noon sun
She wore a trailing gown of rainbow hues , more like the hues of water than of texture , and the warm light fell upon these as she descended and variously multiplied them to beauty . Her little feet were sandaled and a veil of indescribable thinness was wound about her abundant hair and fell across her face , but the gold of her hair escaped the veil and rippled along her gown . Carven chains and necklaces were upon her throat , and bracelets of beaten gold and jewels upon her arms . About her forehead glittered a jeweled band with pendent gems which , at her moving , were like noon sun upon water . As he realized that this was indeed she whom he had come to seek , only to find her hedged about with difficulties -- and it might be by divinities -- which he had not dreamed of coping , a kind of madness seized St. George . The lights danced before his eyes , and his impulse had to do with rushing up to the dais and crying everybody defiance but Olivia . On the moon-lit deck of _ The Aloha _ he had dreamed out the island and the rescue of the island princess , and a possible home-going on his yacht to a home about which he had even dared to dream , too .