And that was where they took a bath. One after the other. Consuelo laced the water with her own bath salts for the girls and let them use the new brown bar of Yardley Persimmon. It foamed up and smelled like no soap they had ever smelled before. They felt uncomfortable in the large pink and gray bathroom, ill-at-ease sitting in a tub of hot water. They washed their hair and used the rinse -- except Yardena who thought that getting her head wet twice was excessive. Each was surprised by the awkward stick figure they saw in the mirror behind the door who looked back at them naked.
After their bath, the girls put on the new Lanz of Salzburg flannel nightgowns over their underwear. But when Consuelo insisted they not sleep in underwear but only in nightgowns, they took it off. But later on, w
