Acting Natural by Jordan DemaineJacques looked beautiful.
He could see it in the spotted mirror they kept backstage, and hear it in the thrilled gasps and squeals of Claudette and Anne-Marie as they looked at him. They, the wardrobe mistress and the actress who played the charming ingénue opposite Jacques’s virile leading man, loved a bit of fun as much as he did. They had been overjoyed to dress him as her when he requested them to, with her makeup and her underthings and an ivory-coloured gown covered with lace and bone buttons.
“You would turn every head at Versailles,” Anne-Marie said with authority, as if she’d ever been to court herself. “And Henri will be overjoyed.” She twisted one of his blond curls into place. Jacques hoped so. His beloved was in a foul mood now. Jacques had se
