"Who would dare rent a gown on the same day of the ball?" Evelina said, refusing to go inside the fashion house that had all ladies in a queue.
"Well, us… and procrastinators."
"In our defense, we only got their confirmation and invitation when we were still at the theatre."
It had not been long since they had taken their respective bows and earned claps from their audience, marking their second day finished. But ever since then, Freeda and Sybil's mind had been flying to how they were going to get their gowns for the ball, and Evelina was there to accompany them to make their rents.
And yet all there was was a long line?
Is it not already night?
"You are her niece, surely you have the key to the backdoor lying in your pockets. I am not in the mood of squeezing myself in a sea of people that I do not know."
