He looked for Toby, and spotted him at last near the back of the room, sitting next to a pale girl with dark hair.

Two or three men sat around a rough wood table, an old man with long white hair and two younger men.

Next to him sits this woman with lank hair and dark circles under her eyes.

She was sitting next to a small, sad-looking girl of about ten or eleven with a tight little mouth and bright blonde hair.

At one table sat five girls with thick, brown hair and matching black eyeliner.

In one corner of the room sat a little dried-up old woman with white hair and bright dark eyes.

Next to her sat a redhead with hair so short it looked like a crew cut.

A few seats away sits a buxom woman with frizzy red hair who appears to be without an escort.

At the other end of the table sat a man with hair so blond it was white.

A man sat there, old and plump with white hair, occasionally strumming a chord on the harp he held.