It’s at that moment Jon realizes she is beautiful. Not a great beauty, let’s not go overboard. At first glance, Antonia’s face is unremarkable, like a blank sheet of paper. Her cropped straight black hair doesn’t help much either. But when Antonia smiles, her face lights up like a Christmas tree. And you discover that eyes that looked brown are in fact olive green, that there are dimples on either side of her mouth, forming a perfect triangle with the one in the middle of her chin. Then she turns serious again, and the effect evaporates.
