Also, instead of frilled sleeves on the gown she usually wore to dine alone, there was only puffed tulle over her bare arms, which made her look as if she was an angel encircled by a white cloud.
Nearly all her gowns were white as became a debutante, but there was one she liked better than all the rest.
Of satin, which moulded her slim figure, it was trimmed with flounced tulle round the skirt and caught with little bunches of pale pink roses.
There was a bunch of roses at her breast and a little cluster of them, which the dressmaker explained should be pinned in her hair.
Angelina had very little time to arrange these.
By the time she had said ‘goodnight’ to her grandmother, she had to collect her wrap, her evening handbag, her long white gloves and Twi-Twi from her bedroom before sh
