From Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale"
CHAPTER 8
(Of Vesper Lynd)
He had remembered her beauty exactly. He was not surprised to be thrilled by it again.
Her dress was if black velvet, simple and yet with the touch of splendor that only half a dozen couturiers in the world can achieve. there was a thin necklace of diamonds at her throat and a diamond clip in the low vee which just exposed the jutting swell of her breasts. She carried a plain black evening bag, a flat oblong which she now held, her arm akimbo, at her waist. her jet-black hair hung straight and simply to the final inward curl below the chin
She looked superb, and Bond’s heart lifted.
© 1953 by Glidrose Productions Ltd.