CHAPTER THREE“Now you must change into an afternoon dress,” Lady Crawford persisted.
“Change again!” Georgina exclaimed, “but that will be a bore and I am now ready for dinner.”
“You are nothing of the sort! I want you to try some of the other clothes to be quite certain they fit you.” Because she had to wish to antagonise her aunt, Georgina agreed even though she thought that it was all a lot of nonsense.
She put on a pretty evening gown that her aunt said had only been worn twice by the previous owner.
She then changed again into what her aunt said was the right gown for tea and it was even lovelier than the one she had just taken off and it accentuated the whiteness of her skin and the fairness of her hair.
“Now you can keep that one on,” Lady Crawford told her. “And you must put o
