Once a Bride (2008)
“Lengths of fabric in a variety of colors draped across numerous trestle tables, each table attended by females with scissors in hand.Eloise glided through the organized chaos, a general among the troops, completely comfortable with her command. She moved from table to table and inspected each piece of fabric. Her brow furrowed as she considered her decisions, then eased when, satisfied, she told the maids in precise detail how she expected the cloth cut.Though he couldn’t catch her every word, ...he heard enough to learn most of the fabric would soon be tunics for Sir John, the rest made into gowns for Eloise.Roland eased up to Isolde, who oversaw the table used to sort the finer threads for sewing and various yarns used to embroider decorative hems and necklines.“What goes on here?”She cocked an eyebrow, as if she thought him daft for not recognizing the obvious. “My lord?”“’Tis obvious you make garments, but so many at once?”“Ah,” she said, his confusion now clear. “Lady Eloise wishes the garments finished well ahead of Christmas court, so we do them now.”Garments that might never be worn if Sir John spent the season in a judicial court instead of in the king’s lavish court.MoreLess
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