Now she was wondering how she could persuade the Duke to take her dancing, but somehow she could not imagine him finding a plebeian dancehall amusing.
They had hardly been in their rooms an hour when to Jabina’s astonishment tradesmen came knocking on the door.
The valet whom the Duke had engaged with the apartment and the maid who was to look after Jabina spent their time answering them.
Tailors, perruquiers, hatters, shoemakers, seamstresses, gown makers, jewellers, every type of salesman concerned with clothes for gentlemen and ladies called in quick succession.
Jabina thought that the Duke might turn them away without even listening to what they had to say.
Then, as she looked pleadingly at him, he realised as if for the first time how unfashionable her clothes were.
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