ubiquitous present, or seeming to be present, everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.
chignon a knot or coil of hair worn at the back of the neck.
"Ah, don't make love to me!" in nineteenth-century attitudes, this remark of Ellen's means "do not flirt with me or pretend to pursue me romantically."
inscrutably not easily understood; completely obscure or mysterious.
