Ehlana also took along a personal maid, a doe-eyed girl named Alcan.

The doe-eyed girl, always so quiet and unassuming, stood in the centre of the Pavilion, her face luminous as she sang.

'It's not uncommon,' the doe-eyed girl was saying quietly.

When she was 8, though, his doe-eyed little girl began placing regular evening telephone calls to him.

She was pleased that Snow White was "not an innocent, doe-eyed girl".

The spike-haired, doe-eyed girls and boys and sweetly pugilistic animal familiars of anime and manga are conventions of American childhood now.

Just a slip of a doe-eyed girl at a black ash table and not another patient in sight - was it a front?

They stood together and watched him ride away-the gnarled old man- and the doe-eyed girl.

'My father was apprenticed to a glazier when he was young,' the doe-eyed girl replied.

He has taped a picture of a doe-eyed little girl to his beeper.