The Perfect Summer (Hubbard's Point)
“CALLED AUGUSTA FROM HER DRESSING ROOM.
She was tangled up in blue, swaths of midnight blue, almost black, really, chiffon—or was it taffeta; she could never get them straight—and she couldn't extricate her arms. “Tara, dear! Can you come help me?”
“Augusta, what happened?” Tara asked, running in from the bathroom, smelling of lemon-scented cleaning fluid.
“I'm attempting to decide what I should wear to the Pumpkin Ball,” Augusta said, “and I have this marvelous bolt of witchy-blue taffeta—or is... it chiffon?—that Hugh brought me back from Venice on one of his painting jaunts, and I thought to myself, Augusta old dear, it's now or never. Since the theme this year is ‘Witchcraft,' what better color than night-sky blue? Thank you, darling,” she said, as Tara unwound her like thread from a spindle.
“Steady there,” Tara said, supporting her as she finished untangling the cloth. Augusta felt as dizzy as a child who had been spun around too many times in Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey.MoreLess
She was tangled up in blue, swaths of midnight blue, almost black, really, chiffon—or was it taffeta; she could never get them straight—and she couldn't extricate her arms. “Tara, dear! Can you come help me?”
“Augusta, what happened?” Tara asked, running in from the bathroom, smelling of lemon-scented cleaning fluid.
“I'm attempting to decide what I should wear to the Pumpkin Ball,” Augusta said, “and I have this marvelous bolt of witchy-blue taffeta—or is... it chiffon?—that Hugh brought me back from Venice on one of his painting jaunts, and I thought to myself, Augusta old dear, it's now or never. Since the theme this year is ‘Witchcraft,' what better color than night-sky blue? Thank you, darling,” she said, as Tara unwound her like thread from a spindle.
“Steady there,” Tara said, supporting her as she finished untangling the cloth. Augusta felt as dizzy as a child who had been spun around too many times in Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey.MoreLess
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