First Sentence

"When the curtain is well up, Mrs. Rigley, the minister's wife, a very nice, refined-looking woman of probably thirty, dressed in a one-piece dress of navy blue silk, relieved with collar and cuffs of white silk, and wearing her hair very plainly, hurries in through the door at the left and comes forward to the window, where, drawing aside the portiere with which the window is hung, she looks out anxiously."