Chapter 7Aria knocked on Lulu Carlo’s bedroom door.
It was a timid rather hesitant knock, for suddenly she felt apprehensive and afraid, unsure of herself and almost regretful of having the courage to act in the way she thought was right.
She entered the room a second later to find, as she had expected, that Lulu was nearly ready for dinner. She was wearing a dress of soft aquamarine blue chiffon, which made her skin look very white and her blonde hair like gleaming gold.
She was in the very act, as Aria entered, of clasping a fabulous necklace of diamonds and aquamarines round her neck, while already similar stones glittered in her wide bracelet on her wrist and in the lobes of her ears.
“What is it, Miss Milbank?” she asked with a sharp note in her voice.
“I came to tell you about y
