It certainly made her appear very much more sophisticated than her own gowns did.
When they had decided what she should wear, Ingrid’s lady’s maid started to arrange her hair in a typically French style.
She piled it high on the top of her head and so skilfully that Marie, who was watching, kept exclaiming,
“C’est marveilleux! My Lady look very different from les jeunes filles Anglaises.”
Loretta knew that Marie was referring to the pictures she had seen in The Ladies’ Journal she bought so that she could try to copy the gowns they illustrated.
She knew that Marie was right.
Both her hair and her gown were now essentially French and they made her not only look different but also feel different.
Ingrid had still not finished.
She herself applied a small amount of powder to Loretta’s
