High Seas to High Society by Sophia James

Author:Sophia James
Language: ron
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

She had nothing to wear and two hours to be ready to leave for the Gravesons. Grimacing she pulled the last of her dresses from its hanger. She had never been bothered before about the state of her clothes, but this gown was hardly salubrious wear for any occasion, let alone a dinner date with a duke. She would give anything for a dress that actually fitted her and had a colour in it that was neither pastel nor brown.

And her gloves? The grey silk pair she wore constantly was fraying not only at the wrist but at the base of one thumb now, and the seam was so narrow that she could not reunite the cloth without also altering the fit.

A knock at the door and Lucinda was in the room, her face falling as she glanced at the gown.

‘Is this what you were planning to wear tonight? Perhaps I should warn you that Annabelle puts much stock in the dress sense of others.’

‘Then she will be sorely disappointed with me, I fear.’

Lucy laughed. ‘You do not enjoy fashion?’ she asked at length.

‘You sound like your brother.’

‘Asher asked you about your gowns?’

‘He did. And I told him that I would rather buy books.’

‘And is that true?’

Emerald’s telling hesitation brought Lucinda to her side. ‘I knew that of course it would not be true.’ She walked across to the wardrobe and firmly shut the door. ‘Nothing in there will do, Emma. May I call you that?’

‘My friends call me Emmie.’

‘Then Emmie it is, and I have just the gown for you. It’s in my room and it was one that my cousin left at Falder last year and she is about your size and colouring.’

‘She wouldn’t mind me using it?’

‘No, not at all. She’s the least fussy person I know and one of the nicest.’

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