In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson , in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin , a reticule dangling from a blue girdle , and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette , listened listen with downcast eyes to M. Capoul 's impassioned wooing woo , and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever , by word word or glance glance , he persuasively indicated indicate the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing .