She changed into a pale yellow dress with a flowing hem that fell just an inch below her knees. It probably wasn't necessary to wear such a dress when all she was going to do was to meet her husband in the lanai.
She blushed when she remembered telling her maid to not touch the bouquet of flowers which she laid carefully on her bed.
For a split second she felt like grabbing the said bouquet and throwing it into the trash can when her maid smiled at her as if she understood perfectly well why in the hell she was treating a bunch of flowers like they were a baby.
She defensively explained to her maid that she was going to make something out of those flowers hence she was being extra careful with it.
But who she was fooling. Not even her maid bought her lame excuses. She just nodded as if to humor her.
