Jane Austen in Boca
“The dining room had been festooned in swathes of red velveteen drapery, and luminescent red and pink plastic hearts hung from the chandeliers, themselves newly installed when the clubhouse had a face-lift a few months earlier. They now cast a romantic luster on the freshly painted faux-marble pink walls. The tablecloths were red embroidered with gold sequins, producing the illusion that each table was actually in the shape of a giant heart. The buffet table was awash in roses and baby’s breath....
The three women had taken pains to look their best for the occasion, each according to her taste. May wore a pink chiffon sheath, empire style with a high neck that she had been assured by the saleswoman was both elegant and slimming. Her hair had been swept back by Lila’s stylist into an elaborate twist—she usually wore it clipped up more casually—and she put on the amethyst-and-diamond earrings and brooch that had been Ir ving’s one gift of fine jewelry in commemoration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, their last, for he had had a heart attack six months later and survived only a month beyond that.MoreLess
The three women had taken pains to look their best for the occasion, each according to her taste. May wore a pink chiffon sheath, empire style with a high neck that she had been assured by the saleswoman was both elegant and slimming. Her hair had been swept back by Lila’s stylist into an elaborate twist—she usually wore it clipped up more casually—and she put on the amethyst-and-diamond earrings and brooch that had been Ir ving’s one gift of fine jewelry in commemoration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, their last, for he had had a heart attack six months later and survived only a month beyond that.MoreLess
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