The other girl's voice had been edged with the contempt of an intrinsically sexually cold female for the vulnerability of the male, but then she had been too naive to see it, and so, round-eyed, and inwardly faintly shocked, she had drunk in Helen's detailed instructions.

Gerda looked faintly shocked.

Ronni felt faintly shocked.

He looked faintly shocked.

The Oldest Mother sat looking faintly shocked.