CHAPTER SIX
The Dowager wasted no time.
Fabric for a Wedding gown was ordered within a week with boxes of pearls and lengths of tulle.
Lady Bethel returned to Flammington to break the news to her father. She would return for the Engagement Ball and would then take up residence at Mannerly prior to the Wedding.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Silkin and two seamstresses had taken Lady Bethel’s measurements, so that the work on the Wedding gown might begin.
When the skirt was completed, Andrea was to be set the task of sewing on the myriad pearls. In the interim she cut and fashioned the veil and this was to be adorned with pearls as well.
Andrea worked mostly in her bedroom, so that she did not have to listen to the excited chatter of the other girls. She knew that she ran the risk of being consid
