CHAPTER TWOThere was not a great distance between the capitals of Lützelstein and Dórsia, but the boundary was very mountainous and therefore the train in which they were travelling made, Zosina thought, a great to-do over it.
The whole journey, however, was so exciting that even the long drawn-out preparations seemed in retrospect worthwhile.
She had not realised that she would require so many new clothes, until she found that they were to be part of her trousseau.
This made them less attractive than they had seemed when they were first ordered.
At the same time, because her sisters were so thrilled by the gowns, bonnets, sunshades, gloves and of course, the exquisite sophisticated lingerie, Zosina found herself carried away on a tide.
Everything had to be done so quickly that she be
