![]() ![]() “I'm quite certain that Theo plans to wear her cape for at least part of the evening." There was a note of amusement in his voice. Or perhaps the wrist would be more dramatic.” It would be even better if the sleeves weren't opaque fabric but nearly transparent, like that new Indian silk her friend Lucinda had been wearing the previous night, and she would have them quite wide, so they billowed and gathered tight at the elbow. That led to the idea that she could put a ruff at the neck and trim that with a narrow strip of swansdown. ![]() Or she could put a feather trim at the neck the white would look shocking against the plum velvet. ![]() Or perhaps swansdown, with the same at the neck. If her sleeves were elbow-length, she could trim them with a narrow edging of black fur. Her only hair adornment would be an enormous feather- a black one- arching backward so it brushed her shoulder. Given a choice, she would dress in plum-colored silk and sleek her hair away from her face without a single flyaway curl. There was something dreadfully banal about the way the pearls shimmered.įor a moment she distracted herself by mentally ripping her dress apart, stripping it of its ruffles and pearls and tiny sleeves. If she didn't have to worry about people mistaking her for a boy- not that they really did, but they couldn't stop remarking on the resemblance at any rate, if she didn't have to worry about that- she would never again wear pink. ![]() “She loathed her profile almost as much as she loathed the dress. ![]()
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