Ginny
““I wonder what she’ll be wearing,” muttered Barbara to Tansy.
Tansy raised her thin eyebrows. “Something in sateen, or something vulgar like that, I should imagine,” she barked.
Tansy felt that she herself was looking magnificent. She was dressed in black satin, a long tube of a dress, which bristled with aigrettes and sparkled with jet embroidery.
Barbara, on the other hand, was dressed in baby-blue satin with a large collar of diamonds. The diamonds were in fact a very good imitation, the ori...ginals having been sold long ago. She wore a bandeau studded with diamanté, which supported one white osprey feather. She felt she looked like the lady of the manor and Tansy depressed her considerably by telling her she looked like a female novelist.
Cyril and Jeffrey fidgeted beside them, both men enduring the social hell of boiled shirts. Cyril’s studs were genuine diamonds, a present from a lady poet with more money than inspiration, and he was seriously thinking of selling them and asking Barbara where she had had hers copied.MoreLess
Tansy raised her thin eyebrows. “Something in sateen, or something vulgar like that, I should imagine,” she barked.
Tansy felt that she herself was looking magnificent. She was dressed in black satin, a long tube of a dress, which bristled with aigrettes and sparkled with jet embroidery.
Barbara, on the other hand, was dressed in baby-blue satin with a large collar of diamonds. The diamonds were in fact a very good imitation, the ori...ginals having been sold long ago. She wore a bandeau studded with diamanté, which supported one white osprey feather. She felt she looked like the lady of the manor and Tansy depressed her considerably by telling her she looked like a female novelist.
Cyril and Jeffrey fidgeted beside them, both men enduring the social hell of boiled shirts. Cyril’s studs were genuine diamonds, a present from a lady poet with more money than inspiration, and he was seriously thinking of selling them and asking Barbara where she had had hers copied.MoreLess
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