CHAPTER FOURFlavia spent the next day shopping.
Though her aunt had bought her the most beautiful dresses, she had said that she could not choose hats to match them.
“Everyone,” Aunt Edith had propounded, “has an individual taste about their own hats.”
Flavia spent a long time buying a great number to match her dresses. They were all striking and so different from the styles she had worn in the country.
She thought that she might be going on the stage considering the fuss made about her appearance.
Her father was continually asking her what she had chosen, if she had been to the very best shops and if she was sure that she could not do better elsewhere.
She knew at the back of his mind he was thinking that she must attract the Earl.
‘If I was just thinking only of him,’ she reflect
