Chapter 19 The Ball“Well, you didn t make it easy, milady, but I d say you re quite presentable for the ball now,” Juniper huffs, eliciting a chorus of relieved noises from the other maids who have been torturing me helping me get ready. I can t blame them all for being annoyed with me. Dmitri and I ended up riding around the grounds, including through a muddy creek or two, so I was quite the mess when we came in, and rather tired, besides. Accordingly it took longer than Juniper had originally planned to bathe me—they insisted on bathing me! All of them! I ve never been so humiliated in my life! And then of course I fell asleep once they had me all snugly wrapped up in warm towels while they were working on my fingernails and toenails. It seems, from the bits of Juniper s lecture that I c
