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“I thought only Her Majesty uses ether, when she—”
“Why, anyone can use it,” Helen broke in, “not just wo with her gloves “Have you seen the latest fashions, Amy? I have a copy of the Ladies’ Gazette of Fashion you h There is a style that would have looked splendid on irl” Poor Helen lookedoff the past “I a in the tooth for that now, of course, but what I meant to say was that I am quite certain it will suit Francesca very well”
Francesca’s heart sank down to her boots She could just iirlish outfits Helen would favor; all ribbons and flounces “Under no circumstances,” she whispered to Amy, as Helen rambled on about an assembly she’d once attended at Almack’s and what she’d worn
“Now, my dear,” Amy murm
ured in reply, “we all have toup and it’s our job to do it, even if itan entire neardrobe of pretty dresses”
Regent Street, with its plate-glass as the preton Arcade, with small dressmakers’ shops and specialty shops There was sowith excite to A lost a the splendors of fashion
She wasn’t sure when she first noticed the ainst the wall in one of the s a brown jacket Tall and gangly, he had the air of so special about hi that should have drawn her attention, except that when their eyes met, he immediately turned his back and pretended to peer into afull of confectionary
The nextlike a girl, and when Francesca glanced around again for the one For soan to take s
Several shops later, she thought she saw hiain on the other side of the street, but it was only his back in the brown jacket You’re being ridiculous, she told herself He’s probably waiting for his wife and spending his ti, and all because Sebastian frightened you with his tales of dangerous people
Just then Helen fell into raptures yet again, this tiar, calling for their opinion on one of the new straw bonnets with the rounded shape and horizontal crown Suddenly Francesca eary of the expedition She quite liked the bonnets, but as the use in giving her opinion, when neither Helen nor Amy listened to it anyway? She strolled farther down the street and stopped in front of a haberdasher’s
A bolt of rose red satin seemed to jump out at her
Francesca gave a groan of sheer feminine pleasure
“Oh, how pretty!” Amy was at her side
“Yes” She glanced back toward theover those bonnets?”
“Not quite That color would suit you very well, you know,” A her hand into Francesca’s ar her inside