“Then you’re dressed?” Holte inquired.
“I am: you may turn around.” She curtsied a little. “You see? Not too formal, but not office-appropriate, either.”
“Don’t tell me that Aunt Esther bothers about that,” Holte said, a bit stunned by this news.
“Oh, no, not as a matter of propriety. But after knocking about the world as she does, she likes to indulge in the niceties of society, and this is one way she can do it.” Poppy went to her vanity table and inspected her reflection; she picked up her boar’s bristle brush and went to work on the froth of short curls, going on while she brought her hair into order. “I need to go to Hannah’s Beauty Box in a week or so. This is getting a bit too fly-away.”
— About the Author —
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has published over ninety novels and nonfiction works and more than seventy pieces of short fiction. She’s known for her bestselling series of historical horror novels featuring the 4000 year-old vampire Count Saint-Germain.
Yarbro lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with the Gang of Two (her irrepressible cats Butterscotch and Crumpet).
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